What was served for supper to Nellie Bly and the patients for her first meal in the asylum?
Ch. 10-13 Reading Questions: Ten Days in a Madhouse

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1.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
Mutton, soggy vegetables, tea
moldy bread, expired milk
stale bread, butter, and pink tea
mystery soup made in a copper bowl and stale bread
Answer explanation
"Placed close together all along the table were large dressing-bowls filled with a pinkish-looking stuff which the patients called tea. By each bowl was laid a piece of bread, cut thick and buttered."
- Chapter 10, paragraph 3
2.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
What amount of privacy was given to patients at bath time?
Private bathrooms with a private 1-person shower per patient
A communal bathroom with with private showers and shower curtains
One big bathroom, no doors, everyone can see
Answer explanation
"I gave one glance at the group of patients gathered at the door watching the scene, and I jumped into the bathtub with more energy than grace."
Chapter 11, paragraph 1
3.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
Why did a woman laugh at Nellie in the bathroom?
Nellie said a funny joke
Nellie wore funny pajamas
Nellie didn't realize that she would be given a bath unwillingly
She thinks Nellie looks funny
Answer explanation
"At this I noticed one of the craziest women in the ward standing by the filled bathtub with a large, discolored rag in her hands. She was chattering away to herself and chuckling in a manner which seemed to me fiendish. I knew now what was to be done with me. I shivered."
-Chapter 11, paragraph 1
4.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
How could the asylum pajamas be described?
cute and cozy
luxurious, made of the finest of silk
uncomfortable flannel slip with BIH6 across the back
Answer explanation
"They put me, dripping wet, into a short canton flannel slip, labeled across
the extreme end in large black letters, "Lunatic Asylum, B. 1., H. 6.""
Ten Days in a Madhouse, Chapter 11, Paragraph 2
5.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
What did B. I. H 6
Bly Inmate House 6
Bewildered Inmate Hall 6
Blackwell's Island Inmate 6
Blackwell's Island Hall 6
Answer explanation
"The letters meant Blackwell's
Island, Hall 6."
Ten Days in a Madhouse, Chapter 11, paragraph 2
6.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
What did every asylum patient have to wear on the walk outside?
handcuffs
hats
pajamas
Answer explanation
"When all the patients had donned the white straw hats, such as
bathers wear at Coney Island, I could not but laugh at their comical appearances."
Ten Days in a Madhouse, Chapter 12, paragraph 1
7.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
Who did Nellie Bly encounter on her first walk at the insane asylum?
Men from the prison
The most violent women on the island
another undercover reporter
Answer explanation
"We had not gone many paces when I saw, proceeding from every walk, long lines of women guarded
by nurses. How many there were! Every way I looked... they were fearfully
dirty.
"Who are they?" I asked of a patient near me.
"They are considered the most violent on the island, she replied."
Ten Days in a Madhouse, Chapter 12, paragraph 2-3
8.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
Which staff member showed cruelty to the old woman who was suffering from the cold temperatures?
Agustus Glupe
Miss Grupe
Miss Greenwich
Answer explanation
"At this I saw Miss Grupe sit down on her and run her cold hands over the old woman's face and down
inside the neck of her dress. At the old woman's cries she laughed savagely, as did the other nurses,
and repeated her cruel action. That day the old woman was carried away to another ward."
Ten Days in a Madhouse, Chapter 12, paragraph 17
9.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
Who came to see Nellie Bly?
Her mother and father
her editor
a gentleman
Answer explanation
"I went to the sitting-room at the end of the hall, and there sat a gentleman who had known me
intimately for years."
Ten Days in a Madhouse, Chapter 13, paragraph 9
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