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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. John’s reason for not taking the narrator away from the summerhouse and frightful bedroom is?
(a) He believes that if she stays she’ll get better
(b) The baby is ill and cannot travel
(c) He wants to live there permanently
(d) Their lease is up in three weeks

2. What does the narrator think John is looking at when he is in the room?
(a) The nailed-down bed
(b) The view out the window
(c) The wallpaper
(d) The bars on the window

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

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

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

6. What does the narrator stop mentioning to John and Jennie?
(a) The wallpaper
(b) The sickness
(c) The baby
(d) The nursery

7. How does the narrator describe the wallpaper’s smell?
(a) A yellow smell
(b) A sweet smell
(c) A sour smell
(d) A black smell

8. What does the narrator throw down into the garden path?
(a) The rope
(b) The shreds of wallpaper
(c) The key to the room
(d) A knife

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

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

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

12. Who faints at the end of the story?
(a) Jennie
(b) The narrator
(c) Weir Mitchell
(d) John

13. What figure becomes very clear in moonlight, clearer than before: “plain as can be.”
(a) A child
(b) An infant
(c) A man
(d) A woman

14. Who does the narrator become afraid of?
(a) Mother
(b) The baby
(c) John
(d) Jennie

15. In what point of view is the story written?
(a) First
(b) Second
(c) Third, omniscient
(d) Third, limited

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What does the narrator do while John is gone?

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

5. Why can’t the figure in the pattern escape?

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