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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the narrator say it looks like the bed has been through?
(a) Many fitful children
(b) Wars
(c) Neglectful housekeeping
(d) Centuries

2. 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

3. Who faints at the end of the story?
(a) Jennie
(b) Weir Mitchell
(c) John
(d) The narrator

4. What does the narrator stop mentioning to John and Jennie?
(a) The sickness
(b) The baby
(c) The wallpaper
(d) The nursery

5. The narrator believes that the wallpaper has a(n) _________.
(a) An odor
(b) A feeling
(c) An alibi
(d) A stain

6. What is torn off in patches in the country house?
(a) The wooden floor
(b) The wallpaper
(c) The curtains
(d) The garden-shed roof

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

8. The narrator begs John to _______:
(a) Bring the baby to her
(b) Cuddle with her
(c) Leave
(d) Go shopping

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

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

11. In what genre would this story be categorized?
(a) A novel
(b) An article
(c) A personal essay
(d) A novella

12. The narrator describes the wallpaper having a recurrent spot where the pattern lolls like a broken neck and _____________
(a) it scares me
(b) an eyeless face sneers at you
(c) two bulbous eyes stare at you upside down
(d) a scabrous mouth opens again and again, as if screaming

13. What holiday passes while the family is staying at the country house?
(a) New Year’s Eve
(b) Thanksgiving
(c) Easter
(d) Fourth of July

14. What does John force the narrator to do after every meal?
(a) Take a nap
(b) Walk through the garden
(c) Bathe
(d) Drink coffee

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In the last paragraph, what does the narrator do?

3. The story covers the span of what season?

4. Why does the narrator believe that the figure in the wallpaper is inactive during the day?

5. What color stains does Jennie find on their clothing?

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