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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. John thinks the narrator is getting _________ when he talks to her in the night.
(a) The same, and she needs additional time to rest
(b) He does not express his opinion regarding the state of her health
(c) Worse, he’s sending her away to Weir Mitchell
(d) Better, saying that her appetite has returned and her flesh is gaining color

2. What is nailed down in the narrator’s room?
(a) The reading chair
(b) The rug
(c) The bed
(d) The desk

3. 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

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

5. Who comes to the door when the narrator is creeping along the wall?
(a) John
(b) Weir Mitchell
(c) Mary
(d) Jennie

6. How much time passes before the narration continues after it suddenly stopped in the first section?
(a) Two weeks
(b) Three days
(c) Two months
(d) One Month

7. What does John make the narrator drink as a cure?
(a) Water
(b) Cod liver oil
(c) Milk
(d) Green tea

8. In the last paragraph, what does the narrator do?
(a) Walk over John who is in her path
(b) Cry
(c) Call for help
(d) Leave the room and walk out into the dark night

9. What does John promise the narrator?
(a) New books
(b) A little trip
(c) Another baby
(d) A new home

10. Where does her shoulder “just” fit?
(a) In the hole in the wall
(b) In a nook in the corner
(c) Out the window
(d) In the long smooch along the wall

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

12. Who does the narrator become afraid of?
(a) Jennie
(b) John
(c) Mother
(d) The baby

13. 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 months
(b) Two years
(c) Two weeks
(d) Two days

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

15. What does the narrator think about doing to the house “to reach the smell”?
(a) Re-furnishing the house
(b) Burn the house down
(c) Re-paint the house
(d) Wash all of the surfaces with ammonia

Short Answer 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.

2. What does the narrator say she watches always?

3. What does Jennie not realize that the narrator has?

4. Where does the narrator plan to go at nightfall, describing that it will be difficult to do?

5. Why does the narrator stop looking out the windows?

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