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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. Where does the narrator plan to go at nightfall, describing that it will be difficult to do?
2. In what point of view is the story written?
3. When the narrator makes the plan to get off the wallpaper before John notices, how long do they have left at the house?
4. What is the illness that the narrator is suffering from?
5. What figure becomes very clear in moonlight, clearer than before: “plain as can be.”
Short Essay Questions
1. Why is the narrator glad that she is in the nursery and not the baby?
2. How has the major life event that the narrator recently endured affected her mental health?
3. What description is horrifying about the wallpaper?
4. How is the narrator similar to the figure she sees in the paper?
5. What does this quote suggest: “It is so pleasant to be out in this great room and creep around as I please.”
6. Why does the narrator seem jealous when she catches first John, and then Jennie, looking at the wallpaper?
7. The narrator believes the wallpaper has an odor. How does she describe the odor?
8. What does what John calls the narrator in the middle of the nightsuggest about their relationship?
9. Why doesn’t the narrator want others to touch the wallpaper?
10. What does John’s action after seeing his wife creeping around the room suggest about John?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
How does the narrator’s perception of her husband change? What is the evidence of this within the text?
Essay Topic 2
Throughout the story the narrator becomes increasingly interested by the perceived woman in the wallpaper. How is the narrator symbolically similar to the woman she describes in the wallpaper?
Essay Topic 3
How does the narrator change throughout the story? What moments in the story are indicative of a change?
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