The Yellow Wallpaper

The tone of the story is best described as __________.

• aggressive

• paranoid

• mysterious

• enthusiastic

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CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

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The following passage (paragraphs 50-52) mainly adds to the development of the text by ____________.

I suppose John never was nervous in his life. He laughs at me so about this wallpaper!

At first he meant to repaper the room, but afterwards he said that I was letting it get the better of me, and that nothing was worse for a nervous patient than to give way to such fancies.

He said that after the wallpaper was changed it would be the heavy bedstead, and then the barred windows, and then that gate at the head of the stairs, and so on.

• hinting that the husband wants to divorce his wife because she is crazy

• foreshadowing that the husband will ultimately kill his wife

• showing that the husband does not take his wife seriously

• suggesting that the husband is abusive towards his wife

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CCSS.RL.5.6

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Which of the following words most closely replaces "querulous" in the following passage (paragraphs 86 - 89) without changing the meaning?

But I don't want to go there at all. I had a friend who was in his hands once, and she says he is just like John and my brother, only more so!

Besides, it is such an undertaking to go so far.

I don't feel as if it was worth while to turn my hand over for anything, and I'm getting dreadfully fretful and querulous.

I cry at nothing, and cry most of the time.

• petulant

• sullen

• moody

• all of the above

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CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

Which of the following inferences is most closely supported by this passage (paragraphs 110-113)?

John says I musn't lose my strength, and has me take cod liver oil and lots of tonics and things, to say nothing of the ale and wine and rare meat.

Dear John! He loves me very dearly, and hates to have me sick. I tried to have a real earnest reasonable talk with him the other day, and tell him how I wish he would let me go and make a visit to Cousin Henry and Julia.

But he said I wasn't able to go, nor able to stand it after I got there; and I did not make out a very good case for myself, for I was crying before I had finished.

It is getting to be a great effort for me to think straight. Just this nervous weakness I suppose.

• The husband's attempts to treat his wife are actually worsening the protagonist's mental state.

• The protagonist's health is continuing to decline because she does not want to get better.

• The husband is slowly poisoning his wife in an effort to stop her from writing.

• The protagonist is ungrateful for all the help and expertise that her husband is offering her.

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CCSS.RL.11-12.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

Which of the following inferences about the protagonist is best supported by the text?

• She has always wanted to be an award winning author.

• She has always had a very active imagination.

• She has always suffered from mental health issues.

• She has always wanted to leave her husband and travel the world.

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CCSS.RL.8.1

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CCSS.RL.9-10.1

Which passage from the excerpt best supports the correct answer to Question 5?

• “I am sitting by the window now, up in this atrocious nursery, and there is nothing to hinder my writing as much as I please, save lack of strength.”

• “I have a schedule prescription for each hour in the day; he takes all care from me, and so I feel basely ungrateful not to value it more.”

• “I used to lie awake as a child and get more entertainment and terror out of blank walls and plain furniture than most children could find in a toy store.”

• “If a physician of high standing, and one's own husband, assures friends and relatives that there is really nothing the matter with one but temporary nervous depression—a slight hysterical tendency—what is one to do?”

Which of the following inferences is best supported by the text?

• The protagonist is responsible for the increasing degradation of the yellow wallpaper in the room.

• The protagonist’s delicate mental health is a result of postpartum depression.

• The woman behind the bars in the wallpaper is trying to make the protagonist appear crazy.

• The husband and his sister are overexaggerating the protagonist’s obsession with the wallpaper.

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CCSS.RL.8.1

CCSS.RI. 9-10.1

CCSS.RI.11-12.1

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CCSS.RL.9-10.2

Which passage from the excerpt best supports the correct answer to Question 7?

• “But here I can creep smoothly on the floor, and my shoulder just fits in that long smooch around the wall, so I cannot lose my way.”

• “It is stripped off—the paper—in great patches all around the head of my bed, about as far as I can reach, and in a great place on the other side of the room low down.”

• “Then she said that the paper stained everything it touched, that she had found yellow smooches on all my clothes and John's, and she wished we would be more careful!”

• All of the above.

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CCSS.RL.8.1

CCSS.RI. 9-10.1

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CCSS.RL.9-10.2