1. What does the narrator do while John is gone?
(a) Jumps out the window
(b) Peels the wallpaper
(c) Shreds the sheets
(d) Runs away

2. What is the profession of the narrator’s husband?
(a) Physician
(b) Lawyer
(c) Politician
(d) Writer

3. Who comes to the door when the narrator is creeping along the wall?
(a) Weir Mitchell
(b) John
(c) Jennie
(d) Mary

4. Fill in the blank: As she is peeling the wallpaper off, she thinks that the pattern of heads and bulbous eyes are “shrieking with _________”?
(a) Hysterics
(b) Derision
(c) Anguish
(d) Laughter

5. John calls the narrator back to bed by calling her this name:
(a) Honey Darling
(b) Pumpkin
(c) Little girl
(d) Sweetheart

Short Answer Questions

1. Fill in the blank: It goes behind every piece of furniture, except the bed, a long, straight, even ________, as if it had been rubbed over and over.

2. Who or what does think is shaking the wallpaper?

3. What does the narrator say it looks like the bed has been through?

4. Who faints at the end of the story?

5. Why can’t the door to the nursery be opened?

(see the answer key)

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