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Make it New!: Early Modernism — Test

Question 13 • Language Arts 11

Read the excerpt from "Why I Wrote 'The Yellow Wallpaper.'" Then, using the remnants of intelligence that remained, and helped by a wise friend, I cast the noted specialist’s advice to the winds and went to work again—work, the normal life of every human being; work, in which is joy and growth and service, without which one is a pauper and a parasite—ultimately recovering some measure of power. Which social attitude of Gilman’s era does this excerpt demonstrate?

Answer
A
Working against a doctor’s advice has negative consequences.
B
Working gives people a sense of competence and control.
C
Working is something that is done with the hands not the mind.
D
Working is only for those who have to make money to survive.
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