Question

PLEASE I REALLY NEED HELP with this TSI READING PRACTICE TEST.

can someone tell me the answers and why they’re right?

The Back part-

C. the wallpaper
D. the heavy bedstead

17. Why does the narrator use capitalization in this sentence?: “He knows there is no REASON to suffer, and that satisfies him. Of course it is only nervousness.”
A. She wants to imply that her husband thinks that she is irrational.
B. She is trying to point out the gravity of her situation.
C. She wants to suggest men are more reasonable than women.
D. She is praising her husband for being logical.

18. This passage implies that the relationship between the narrator and her husband is
A. contented
B. strained
C. resigned
D. violent

19. From this passage, we can infer that the narrator
A. is a poor mother
B. regrets her marriage
C. is suffering from mental illness
D. could be dangerous to society.

20. When the narrator uses the phrase “such fancies” in paragraph 6, she is referring to
A. having Mary take care of the baby.
B. being so nervous about her situation.
C. her husband’s refusal to renovate the entire house for her.
D. her husband’s opinion about her desire to put up new wallpaper.

Answer 1

16. It refers to the wallpaper (c). You can infer this because the first few paragraphs she is describing something acrid and yellow, and follows it up with “He laughs at me so about this wallpaper” (paragraph 6).

17. The capitalization of REASON is the narrator implying that her husband thinks that she is irrational (A). The narrator is trying to convey that her husband believes that her life is great and that she has no reason to be upset and the fact that she is upset is irrational.

18. Her relationship with her husband is strained (B). Clearly the narrator and her husband have been arguing about the wallpaper and the reason why she is upset.

19. We can infer that the narrator is suffering from mental illness (C). She is having delusions that the wallpaper is causing her to suffer greatly. When someone is worrying, paranoid, or upset about nothing you can infer that they have a mental illness of some sort.

20. “Such fancies” refers to being so nervous about her situation. The husband doesn’t want to redecorate the room because he doesn’t want to encourage her delusions further; he believes that she should just get over it and stop being so outlandish over nothing.