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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does John promise the narrator?
(a) New books
(b) Another baby
(c) A little trip
(d) A new home

2. Why does the narrator believe that the figure in the wallpaper is inactive during the day?
(a) She is scared
(b) She is eating
(c) She is distracted by the wallpaper
(d) She is sleeping

3. What color stains does Jennie find on their clothing?
(a) Red
(b) Green
(c) Black
(d) Yellow

4. What is torn off in patches in the country house?
(a) The wallpaper
(b) The garden-shed roof
(c) The curtains
(d) The wooden floor

5. In the opening pages, what does the narrator’s husband not believe?
(a) That women should be allowed to vote
(b) That the narrator is sick
(c) How expensive the summer home is
(d) That the baby is his

6. Why can’t the figure in the pattern escape?
(a) The pattern would strangle her
(b) She doesn’t really want to escape
(c) She needs the narrator to help her
(d) She can’t find her way out

7. What year was this story published?
(a) 2001
(b) 1892
(c) 1888
(d) 1980

8. What does the housekeeper think has made the narrator sick?
(a) Writing
(b) Childbirth
(c) Lyme disease
(d) Reading

9. What does the narrator initially want to do with a rope?
(a) Use it to hang the woman
(b) Use it to tie up the woman if she tries to escape
(c) Use it to move the bed from the wall
(d) Use it to escape out the window

10. In the last paragraph, what does the narrator do?
(a) Leave the room and walk out into the dark night
(b) Call for help
(c) Cry
(d) Walk over John who is in her path

11. 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.
(a) Smooch
(b) Stripe
(c) Line
(d) Vine

12. What does the narrator “securely fasten” herself with?
(a) A rope
(b) Restrictive clothing
(c) The drapery
(d) The bed sheets

13. John advices the narrator to not allow the what to run away with her?
(a) Her motherly love
(b) Her fancies
(c) Gardener
(d) Her hunger

14. Jennie says what stains all of their clothing?
(a) The wallpaper
(b) Infant formula
(c) Wine
(d) Flower pollen

15. What does the narrator think about doing to the house “to reach the smell”?
(a) Burn the house down
(b) Re-paint the house
(c) Re-furnishing the house
(d) Wash all of the surfaces with ammonia

Short Answer Questions

1. How does the narrator describe the wallpaper’s smell?

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

3. What holiday passes while the family is staying at the country house?

4. John’s reason for not taking the narrator away from the summerhouse and frightful bedroom is?

5. Who does the narrator say is her one comfort?

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