Read these lines: "I am a doctor, dear, and I know. You are gaining flesh and color, your appetite is better. I feel really much easier about you." "I do not weigh a bit more," said I, "nor as much; and my appetite may be better in the evening, when you are here, but it is worse in the morning when you are away." How does she answer him?

1. 1. He makes two claims about her body: that she is gaining flesh and colour, and that her appetite is better. 2. 2. She answers the first by saying she does not weigh a bit more, and possibly less. 3. 3. She answers the second by dividing the day: better in the evening while he is there, worse in the morning while he is away. 4. 4. Taking his claims one at a time and testing each is what the first option describes. 5. 5. She neither agrees nor moves to another topic, so options B and C fail. 6. 6. No second doctor is consulted anywhere in the quoted lines. _Source: The Yellow Wall Paper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1892)_