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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does John force the narrator to do after every meal?
(a) Drink coffee
(b) Bathe
(c) Take a nap
(d) Walk through the garden

2. Whom does the narrator want to visit?
(a) Her cousin Henry and Julia
(b) Her dog, Jasper, at the city house
(c) Her mother and Father
(d) Her sister Jane and husband

3. John thinks the narrator is getting _________ when he talks to her in the night.
(a) He does not express his opinion regarding the state of her health
(b) The same, and she needs additional time to rest
(c) Worse, he’s sending her away to Weir Mitchell
(d) Better, saying that her appetite has returned and her flesh is gaining color

4. Who does the narrator plan on helping while John is away?
(a) The woman in the wallpaper
(b) John
(c) Her infant
(d) Jennie

5. How much time passes before the narration continues after it suddenly stopped in the first section?
(a) One Month
(b) Three days
(c) Two months
(d) Two weeks

6. What is the illness that the narrator is suffering from?
(a) Post-partum depression
(b) Schizophrenia
(c) Severe loneliness
(d) Bi-polar disorder

7. What is nailed down in the narrator’s room?
(a) The desk
(b) The rug
(c) The bed
(d) The reading chair

8. How long is John gone for toward the end of the story?
(a) One night
(b) One hour
(c) One week
(d) One month

9. At the climax of the story, who does the narrator think that she has become?
(a) Jennie
(b) Mary
(c) John
(d) The woman in the wallpaper

10. What does the narrator think is happening to the wallpaper pattern at night?
(a) It is shaking
(b) It is peeling itself off of the wall
(c) It is talking to her
(d) It is humming

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

12. What does the narrator say it looks like the bed has been through?
(a) Centuries
(b) Wars
(c) Neglectful housekeeping
(d) Many fitful children

13. Where doesn’t the narrator want to go at the end of the story?
(a) Home
(b) To the nursery
(c) Outside
(d) To the kitchen

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the narrator try - but fails – to move?

2. How does the narrator describe the “report” that was given?

3. Who carries the narrator upstairs to her room?

4. What does the narrator say she watches always?

5. What does the narrator increasingly like about her bedroom?

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