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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. John advices the narrator to not allow the what to run away with her?
(a) Gardener
(b) Her fancies
(c) Her motherly love
(d) Her hunger

2. At the climax of the story, who does the narrator think that she has become?
(a) The woman in the wallpaper
(b) Mary
(c) Jennie
(d) John

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

4. What does the narrator think John is looking at when he is in the room?
(a) The wallpaper
(b) The bars on the window
(c) The view out the window
(d) The nailed-down bed

5. The story covers the span of what season?
(a) Spring
(b) Fall
(c) Winter
(d) Summer

6. John calls the narrator back to bed by calling her this name:
(a) Honey Darling
(b) Sweetheart
(c) Little girl
(d) Pumpkin

7. In the opening pages, what does the narrator’s husband not believe?
(a) How expensive the summer home is
(b) That women should be allowed to vote
(c) That the narrator is sick
(d) That the baby is his

8. Fill in the blanks respectively: I _________ at nothing, and ________most of the time.
(a) Cry, cry
(b) Cry, laugh
(c) Laugh, cry
(d) Laugh, laugh

9. Fill in the blank: As she is peeling the wallpaper off, she thinks that the pattern of heads and bulbous eyes are “shrieking with _________”?
(a) Derision
(b) Hysterics
(c) Laughter
(d) Anguish

10. What type of figure does the narrator believe she sees in the pattern?
(a) A child
(b) An infant
(c) A woman
(d) A man

11. What does the narrator think that the figure in the wallpaper is trying to do?
(a) Eat dinner
(b) Sleep
(c) Escape
(d) Fight the wallpaper pattern

12. What does the moonlight illuminate on the wallpaper?
(a) Knives
(b) Roast beef
(c) Honeycombs
(d) Bars

13. What does the narrator try - but fails – to move?
(a) The chair
(b) The lamp
(c) The desk
(d) The bed

14. How does the narrator describe the wallpaper’s smell?
(a) A sour smell
(b) A sweet smell
(c) A yellow smell
(d) A black smell

15. What does the narrator do while John is gone?
(a) Runs away
(b) Jumps out the window
(c) Shreds the sheets
(d) Peels the wallpaper

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does John go toward the end of the story?

2. Who does the narrator become afraid of?

3. Which room does the narrator’s husband choose for her room?

4. What does the narrator say it looks like the bed has been through?

5. Why can’t the figure in the pattern escape?

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