"The Yellow Wallpaper" by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Can someone check to see if these are right? Much appreciated. I tried to include the quotes to make it a little easier.
1. The narrator's attitude towards the setting in lines 1-5 is best described as ?
" It is very seldom that mere ordinary people like John and myself secure ancestral halls for the summer. A colonial mansion, a hereditary estate, I would say a haunted house, and reach the height of romantic felicity-- but that would be asking too much of fate! Still i will proudly declare that there is something queer about it."
a. excited and thankful
b. disgusted, but accepting
c. anticipative, allured
d. loving, but resentful
e. apprehensive, but intrigued
ANSWER: E
2. Which of the following best describes the narrative style of this selection?
b. first person, graphic, eloquent
d. first-person, descriptive, choppy
ANSWER: A
3. Why has the author placed quotation marks around the word "work" in line 20?
a. to point out that it is not work in the traditional sense, but just an endeavor of any kind
b. to point out that it is strange that this woman should want to work
c. to point out that work is a necessary evil
d. to point out that narrator is suffering with a work obsession
e. to point out that the narrator is suffering from exhaustion from working too hard
ANSWER: A
4. Which of the following best describes John's attitude towards the narrator (Jane)?
a. authoritative, dismissive, caring
b. dictatorial, sexist, sadistic
c. kind, understanding, benevolent
d. autocratic, brutal, cruel
e. malicious, jealous, spiteful
ANSWER: A
5. I feel like the narrator is more REBELLIOUS than
liberated, repressed, angry, or scared bc she listened to her husband John at first but then towards the end she didn't.
6. "Draught" (line 41) most likely means?
"I even said so to John one moonlight evening but he said what I felt was a draught, and shut the window" (Gilman, 41).
wet, cold, draft, uneasiness, apprehensiveness
ANSWER: draft
7. The description of the room on line 61, ("and there are rings and things in the walls"), also closely resemble a description of which of the following settings?
doctor's office, sanitarium, a haunted house, a typical colonial mansion, a resort
ANSWER: haunted house
8. Why does John not allow the narrator to write?
a. John does not believe that women should be literate
b. John is jealous of the narrator's talent
c. John believes that the activity and self-reflection of writing will worsen her condition
d. john believes that writing is not a proper activity for a wife
e. John is afraid that she will write unflattering things about him
ANSWER: I said A but I'm not sure.
10. What is the effect of the repetition of "what can one do" (line 14) and "what is one to do?" (lines 17, 23)
a. prompts the reader to think of a solution to the narrator's problem
b. points to the narrator's lack of self-determination
c. provides the passage with a poetic quality
d. adds an internal rhyme
e. indicates that this story belongs to the mystery genre.
ANSWER: A but I'm not sure.