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

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

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

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

5. Why can’t the figure in the pattern escape?
(a) The pattern would strangle her
(b) She can’t find her way out
(c) She doesn’t really want to escape
(d) She needs the narrator to help her

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the author of The Yellow Wallpaper?

2. The narrator begs John to _______:

3. What does John force the narrator to do after every meal?

4. Where does her shoulder “just” fit?

5. In the opening pages, what does the narrator’s husband not believe?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does the narrator say “exhausts” her?

2. How is the narrator’s behavior changing because of her obsession?

3. What does this quote suggest: “It is so pleasant to be out in this great room and creep around as I please.”

4. What does the fact that the narrator says John “pretended to be living and kind” suggest about the narrator’s condition?

5. How does the narrator initially describe the wallpaper?

6. In 1862, what was the standard cure for depression, specifically after a woman has had a baby?

7. How does the narrator initially explain her condition?

8. What is suggested by the narrator’s concern for her reputation?

9. Why doesn’t the narrator want others to touch the wallpaper?

10. What doesn’t the narrator mind about the nursery at first?

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