StudySync 10 Days in a Madhouse Quiz

Reread paragraph 2. What does the passage mainly reveal about Officer Bockert?

• Bockert is fed up with Nellie and doesn’t want to hear any more about her complaints.

• Bockert is trying to trap Nellie so that she can be arrested and taken to jail.

• Bockert believes that Nellie’s missing trunk is a top priority situation to be investigated.

• Bockert doesn’t realize that Nellie is putting on an act.

Reread paragraph 15. Which of the following words best replaces "incredulous" in the passage?

• unbelieving

• honest

• superior

• stupid

Which of the following inferences about New York City in 1887 (as compared to now) is best supported by the excerpt?

• Mentally unstable people were a lot more likely to get sent to prison in 1887.

• It appears much easier to get institutionalized in 1887 than it likely would be now.

• Judges were kind in 1887 versus how harsh and cruel they are now.

• Journalists no longer go undercover pretending to be someone else in order to get a good story.

"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."

What do these lines mostly reveal about Mrs. Stanard?

• 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.

What passage from the text best shows that Nellie empathizes with people with mental illness?

• “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 of these inferences about Nellie’s fear of reporters is best supported by the text?

• Nellie thinks that reporters will act cruelly and stare at her.

• Nellie has a strong distrust of the press.

• Nellie is paranoid about reporters due to her mental illness.

• Nellie knows that a reporter could reveal her true identity, since she is one herself.

What passage best shows that Nellie worries reporters could discover her true identity?

• “The entrance to the building was surrounded by a curious crowd and I did not think my case was bad enough to permit me passing them without some remark, so I asked if all those people had lost their trunks.”

• “I felt that I would rather face a mass of expert doctors, policemen, and detectives than two bright specimens of my craft.”

• “These men are impudent, and I do not want to be stared at. I will go away. I don’t want to stay here.”

• “I wish the reporters were here.”

Nellie goes to great lengths to convince those around her that she is insane. Identify one thing Nellie does to appear mentally unfit.

• Resembles Judge Duffy’s dead sister

• Dresses well and speaks in perfect English

• Tells the judge about the home for working women she helps to run

• Pretends to not know where she is from