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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Whose perspective is the story being told from?
(a) Jennie’s
(b) Jane’s
(c) John’s
(d) The unnamed protagonist’s

2. Who does John ask to give a report about the narrator’s wellbeing?
(a) Mary
(b) Weir Mitchell
(c) The narrator
(d) Jennie

3. In the first section, why does the protagonist’s narration suddenly end?
(a) She falls asleep
(b) She is out of paper
(c) Her husband is coming
(d) She has nothing else to say

4. Why does the unnamed protagonist believe that she and her husband were able to rent the mansion for the summer?
(a) Because her husband needs to visit for work
(b) They received an inheritance
(c) Because it is haunted
(d) They were evicted from their city home

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the moonlight illuminate on the wallpaper?

2. What is torn off in patches in the country house?

3. What does the narrator think that the figure in the wallpaper is trying to do?

4. What year was this story published?

5. What does the narrator throw down into the garden path?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does John do when he sees the narrator creeping around the room?

2. Why does the narrator feel bad for the woman in the wallpaper?

3. How does the narrator initially describe the wallpaper?

4. Who does John tell the narrator is the only person who can truly help her out of her sickness?

5. How does the narrator say John feels about intangible things?

6. What are some indications that the narrator is, in fact, not getting better?

7. Why does John refuse to repaper the nursery after initially agreeing?

8. What does John’s action after seeing his wife creeping around the room suggest about John?

9. Why does John threaten to send the narrator to Weir Mitchell?

10. What’s illuminating about the conversation between John and the narrator on page 110? What is his tone with her? How does he treat her?

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