|
| Name: _________________________ | Period: ___________________ |
This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. The story covers the span of what season?
(a) Summer
(b) Winter
(c) Spring
(d) Fall
2. Whose perspective is the story being told from?
(a) Jennie’s
(b) The unnamed protagonist’s
(c) John’s
(d) Jane’s
3. What does the narrator try - but fails – to move?
(a) The bed
(b) The desk
(c) The lamp
(d) The chair
4. When does the narrator think the woman in the wallpaper gets out?
(a) When she is tired
(b) During the nighttime
(c) When she is hungry
(d) During the daytime
5. In what point of view is the story written?
(a) First
(b) Second
(c) Third, omniscient
(d) Third, limited
6. Where does John go toward the end of the story?
(a) To the sea
(b) To town
(c) To visit family
(d) To work
7. Who does the narrator say is her one comfort?
(a) Jennie
(b) John
(c) Mother
(d) The baby
8. In the opening pages, what does the narrator’s husband not believe?
(a) That the narrator is sick
(b) That women should be allowed to vote
(c) How expensive the summer home is
(d) That the baby is his
9. John calls the narrator back to bed by calling her this name:
(a) Sweetheart
(b) Pumpkin
(c) Honey Darling
(d) Little girl
10. What does the narrator initially want to do with a rope?
(a) Use it to move the bed from the wall
(b) Use it to tie up the woman if she tries to escape
(c) Use it to hang the woman
(d) Use it to escape out the window
11. How does the narrator describe the wallpaper’s smell?
(a) A sour smell
(b) A yellow smell
(c) A black smell
(d) A sweet smell
12. Where does the narrator plan to go at nightfall, describing that it will be difficult to do?
(a) The garden
(b) The nursery
(c) Home to her apartment in the country
(d) Into the wallpaper
13. What does John cry for to break down the door?
(a) An axe
(b) A butcher knife
(c) A fire poker
(d) A sledgehammer
14. What does the narrator think John is looking at when he is in the room?
(a) The view out the window
(b) The wallpaper
(c) The bars on the window
(d) The nailed-down bed
15. When the narrator makes the plan to get off the wallpaper before John notices, how long do they have left at the house?
(a) Two years
(b) Two days
(c) Two weeks
(d) Two months
Short Answer Questions
1. Which room does the narrator’s husband choose for her room?
2. When does the narrator say the wallpaper becomes clearer?
3. Who does the narrator plan on helping while John is away?
4. What does the narrator “securely fasten” herself with?
5. What does the narrator say she watches always?
|
This section contains 450 words (approx. 2 pages at 300 words per page) |
|



