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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. Fill in the blank: It goes behind every piece of furniture, except the bed, a long, straight, even ________, as if it had been rubbed over and over.
(a) Stripe
(b) Vine
(c) Line
(d) Smooch

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

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

4. Why does the narrator stop looking out the windows?
(a) She doesn’t want John to see her
(b) It is making her feel dizzy
(c) She sees lots of creeping women
(d) She’s afraid she’ll jump out

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In what point of view is the story written?

2. Who carries the narrator upstairs to her room?

3. How long is John gone for toward the end of the story?

4. Who is the author of The Yellow Wallpaper?

5. The narrator describes the wallpaper having a recurrent spot where the pattern lolls like a broken neck and _____________

Short Essay Questions

1. Who does the narrator want to help save the woman in the wallpaper?

2. What does the woman in the wallpaper do to shake the pattern?

3. The narrator briefly considers jumping out the window. Why does she decide against it?

4. What is the wallpaper’s odor a metaphor for?

5. Why doesn’t the narrator cry in front of Jennie or John?

6. What is suggested by the narrator’s multiple descriptions of the wallpaper?

7. Why doesn’t the narrator want to go outside near the climax of the story?

8. How does the narrator describe the wallpaper in the middle of the story?

9. How is the narrator similar to the figure she sees in the paper?

10. What does John call the narrator in the middle of the night? And why?

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