QUESTION 1 Read the following excerpt carefully before you choose your answer.
(1) 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?
(2) My brother is also a physician, and also of high standing, and he says the same thing.
(3) So I take phosphates or phosphites—whichever it is, and tonics, and journeys, and air, and exercise, and am absolutely forbidden to "work" until I am well again.
(4) Personally, I disagree with their ideas.
(5) Personally, I believe that congenial work, with excitement and change, would do me good.
(6) But what is one to do?
(7) I did write for a while in spite of them; but it does exhaust me a good deal—having to be so sly about it, or else meet with heavy opposition.
(8) I sometimes fancy that in my condition if I had less opposition and more society and stimulus—but John says the very worst thing I can do is to think about my condition, and I confess it always makes me feel bad.
(9) So I will let it alone and talk about the house.
The repetition of the word "Personally" in sentences 4 and 5 suggests that the narrator
feels the need to qualify her opinion
is highly uncomfortable writing in the journal
is planning to escape from the room
is uncertain of her own opinions
wants to forcefully assert herself
QUESTION 2 Read the following excerpt carefully before you choose your answer.
(1) 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?
(2) My brother is also a physician, and also of high standing, and he says the same thing.
(3) So I take phosphates or phosphites—whichever it is, and tonics, and journeys, and air, and exercise, and am absolutely forbidden to "work" until I am well again.
(4) Personally, I disagree with their ideas.
(5) Personally, I believe that congenial work, with excitement and change, would do me good.
(6) But what is one to do?
(7) I did write for a while in spite of them; but it does exhaust me a good deal—having to be so sly about it, or else meet with heavy opposition.
(8) I sometimes fancy that in my condition if I had less opposition and more society and stimulus—but John says the very worst thing I can do is to think about my condition, and I confess it always makes me feel bad.
(9) So I will let it alone and talk about the house.
The fact that the woman is not actively involved in decisions regarding her own treatment is best characterized through the details in which sentence?
Sentence 1
Sentence 2
Sentence 3
Sentence 6
Sentence 9
