Unit 1(1.3.5a) "The Yellow Wallpaper" by Charlotte Perkins Gilma

1a. The short story, "The Yellow Wallpaper" is told from which point of view?

• A. First -person

• B. Third -person limited

• C. Second-person

• D. Third-person omniscient

2a. The narrator of "The Yellow Wallpaper" agrees to stay in the old house, even though she is troubled by it, because her husband says it's best for her. What can the reader reasonably infer from this about the narrator?

• A. That she is secretly planning her escape from the house.

• B. That she is used to following her husband's directions.

• C. That she often stands up for herself against her husband

• D. That she is very sick and really does need the rest.

3a. What aspect of the room seems to most bother the narrator of "The Yellow Wallpaper"?

• A. The bars on the window

• B. The view from the window

• C. The pattern of the wallpaper

• D. The rips in the wallpaper

4a. What does the narrator believe is trapped behind the wallpaper?

• A. Her child

• B. Her husband

• C. A snake

• D. A woman

5a. What actions of the narrator show that her mental stat is beginning to deteriorate?

• A. Her focus on finding a purpose to the pattern in the wallpaper

• B. Her determination to open the bars on her windows and escape

• C. Her obsessive fascination with the

• D. Her clawing and scratching on the doors of her room

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CCSS.RL.5.6

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