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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. The narrator begs John to _______:
(a) Cuddle with her
(b) Go shopping
(c) Leave
(d) Bring the baby to her

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

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

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

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

8. In what genre would this story be categorized?
(a) A personal essay
(b) A novella
(c) A novel
(d) An article

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does the narrator’s husband take her at the beginning of the story?

2. John calls the narrator back to bed by calling her this name:

3. Fill in the blanks respectively: I _________ at nothing, and ________most of the time.

4. What does the narrator believe cultivates deceit?

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

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