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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where does John go toward the end of the story?
(a) To the sea
(b) To work
(c) To town
(d) To visit family

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

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

4. John threatens to send the narrator to whom?
(a) William Overtell
(b) Weir Mitchell
(c) Walter West
(d) Wallis Simpson

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

6. Where does the narrator spend most of her time in the country house?
(a) The back porch
(b) Walking along the garden pathways
(c) The nursery
(d) The baby’s room

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

8. What does John cry for to break down the door?
(a) A sledgehammer
(b) A fire poker
(c) An axe
(d) A butcher knife

9. Where does the narrator’s husband take her at the beginning of the story?
(a) Fishing
(b) A country house for the summer
(c) On a carriage ride
(d) A wellness spa in Biarritz

10. How does the narrator describe the “report” that was given?
(a) Fair
(b) Good
(c) Crazy
(d) Bad

11. Fill in the blanks respectively: I _________ at nothing, and ________most of the time.
(a) Cry, laugh
(b) Cry, cry
(c) Laugh, laugh
(d) Laugh, cry

12. What does the moonlight illuminate on the wallpaper?
(a) Knives
(b) Bars
(c) Honeycombs
(d) Roast beef

13. The narrator gets up in the middle of the night to do what?
(a) Feel if the wallpaper is moving
(b) Run away
(c) Feed her baby
(d) Get a drink of water

14. The narrator describes the wallpaper having a recurrent spot where the pattern lolls like a broken neck and _____________
(a) a scabrous mouth opens again and again, as if screaming
(b) an eyeless face sneers at you
(c) it scares me
(d) two bulbous eyes stare at you upside down

15. The narrator follows what/whom?
(a) A horse in the field
(b) The wallpaper’s pattern around the room
(c) John around the gardens
(d) Her son around the house

Short Answer Questions

1. The narrator believes that the wallpaper has a(n) _________.

2. Why does the unnamed protagonist believe that she and her husband were able to rent the mansion for the summer?

3. What year was this story published?

4. When does the narrator think the woman in the wallpaper gets out?

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

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