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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. Who does the narrator want to help the woman in the wallpaper?
(a) Mary
(b) Jennie
(c) John
(d) Herself
2. The story covers the span of what season?
(a) Summer
(b) Winter
(c) Fall
(d) Spring
3. What does the narrator believe cultivates deceit?
(a) Watching the wallpaper
(b) Eating sweets when no one is looking
(c) Writing in her journal
(d) Lying awake during the sanctioned naptimes
4. In the opening pages, what does the narrator’s husband not believe?
(a) That the baby is his
(b) That the narrator is sick
(c) How expensive the summer home is
(d) That women should be allowed to vote
5. 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 sleeping
(d) She is eating
6. Who is the housekeeper?
(a) Weir Mitchell
(b) Jennie, John’s sister
(c) Mary, the nursemaid
(d) John
7. Who or what does think is shaking the wallpaper?
(a) The yellow color
(b) The woman
(c) The bars
(d) The pattern
8. Who does the narrator plan on helping while John is away?
(a) John
(b) The woman in the wallpaper
(c) Her infant
(d) Jennie
9. What does John make the narrator drink as a cure?
(a) Milk
(b) Water
(c) Green tea
(d) Cod liver oil
10. What does the narrator think John is looking at when he is in the room?
(a) The wallpaper
(b) The view out the window
(c) The bars on the window
(d) The nailed-down bed
11. Whose perspective is the story being told from?
(a) The unnamed protagonist’s
(b) Jane’s
(c) John’s
(d) Jennie’s
12. What does John promise the narrator?
(a) A little trip
(b) A new home
(c) New books
(d) Another baby
13. At the climax of the story, who does the narrator think that she has become?
(a) Jennie
(b) John
(c) Mary
(d) The woman in the wallpaper
14. Where does John go toward the end of the story?
(a) To work
(b) To the sea
(c) To visit family
(d) To town
15. Fill in the blank: The narrator is so angry at the climax of the story that she wants to ___________.
(a) Sleep
(b) Jump out the window
(c) Cry
(d) Kill John
Short Answer Questions
1. Where doesn’t the narrator want to go at the end of the story?
2. Which room does the narrator’s husband choose for her room?
3. What is the narrator’s husband’s name?
4. What does Jennie not realize that the narrator has?
5. Who does the narrator think she sees creeping outside her windows?
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