Comprehension of Poem and Nonfiction

What do the following lines from Chapter IV mainly reveal about Mrs. Stanard?

"Oh, don’t!" said Mrs. Stanard, in evident alarm. "Don’t! She is a lady and it would kill her to be put on the Island."

• Mrs. Stanard fears the Island because she herself has been institutionalized there.

• Mrs. Stanard has no confidence in the criminal justice system.

• Mrs. Stanard is unaware of Nellie’s plan and genuinely wants to keep her safe.

• Mrs. Stanard hopes the judge will send Nellie back to the home so that she herself may take care of Nellie.

Which of the following best sums up how Nellie feels about people with actual mental illness?

• She is desperate to become one of them because she truly believes herself to be a crazy person.

• She empathizes with their troubles and hopes that they are treated without cruelty.

• She believes that many of them could see their conditions improve if they had the chance to live in a home like Mrs. Stanard’s.

• She finds it amusing pretending to be one of them.

Which passage from the text most strongly supports the answer to Question 5?

• “Everywhere was a sprinkling of well-dressed, well-fed officers watching the scene passively and almost indifferently."

• “I said, ‘They all seem to be foreigners, too...They are all foreigners just landed. They have all lost their trunks, and it takes most of our time to help find them for them.’”

• “I silently blessed the kind-hearted judge, and hoped that any poor creatures who might be afflicted as I pretended to be should have as kindly a man to deal with as Judge Duffy.”

• "So saying, I pulled down my veil and secretly hoped the reporters would be detained elsewhere until I was sent to the asylum.”

Which paragraph best shows Bly's message to be that mentally ill people receive poor treatment?

• "I don't see why all this is needed to help me find my trunks. These men are impudent, and I do not want to be stared at."

• "So saying, I pulled down my veil, and secretly hoped the reporters would be detained elsewhere..."

• "Oh don't!" said Mrs. Stanard, in evident alarm. "Don't! She is a lady and it would kill her to be put on the island.""

• "For once I felt like shaking the woman. To think the island was just the place I wanted to reach and here she was trying to keep me from going..."

Based on details in paragraph 48, the reader can infer that Bly's purpose in writing is -

"To think the island was just the place I wanted to reach and here she was trying to keep me from going there!"

• To describe how to fool people to get what you want.

• To entertain readers with a funny story from her real life.

• To persuade readers that Mrs. Stanard is a very kind lady.

• To inform readers about the treatment of mentally ill people.

The first stanza suggests mainly that the speaker __________.

I never hear the word “Escape”

Without a quicker blood,

A sudden expectation –

A flying attitude!

• is planning a prison break but doesn’t know how to proceed

• is over-excited and mentally unstable

• can be emotionally affected by words and thoughts

• wants to learn how to be a pilot

Which of the following selections best summarizes the speaker’s situation?

• The speaker has been in prison for all of her life.

• The speaker sees imprisonment as a metaphor for her emotional state.

• The windows of the speaker’s room are barred for her own safety.

• The speaker has failed at everything she has ever tried to do.

Which of the following lines best supports the answer to the previous question?

• “I never hear the word ‘Escape’ / Without a quicker blood,”

• “A sudden expectation, / A flying attitude!”

• “I never hear of prisons broad / By soldiers battered down,”

• “But I tug childish at my bars / Only to fail again!”