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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. What does the housekeeper think has made the narrator sick?
(a) Writing
(b) Reading
(c) Lyme disease
(d) Childbirth
2. In her fury, what does the narrator bite?
(a) The rope
(b) The bed
(c) The wallpaper
(d) The windowsill
3. The narrator follows what/whom?
(a) John around the gardens
(b) Her son around the house
(c) A horse in the field
(d) The wallpaper’s pattern around the room
4. 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
5. Fill in the blank: The narrator is so angry at the climax of the story that she wants to ___________.
(a) Jump out the window
(b) Kill John
(c) Cry
(d) Sleep
6. What is torn off in patches in the country house?
(a) The garden-shed roof
(b) The wooden floor
(c) The wallpaper
(d) The curtains
7. When does the narrator say the wallpaper becomes clearer?
(a) In the morning
(b) In the moonlight
(c) In the evening
(d) In the afternoon
8. Where does the narrator plan to go at nightfall, describing that it will be difficult to do?
(a) Into the wallpaper
(b) Home to her apartment in the country
(c) The garden
(d) The nursery
9. Where does the narrator’s husband take her at the beginning of the story?
(a) A wellness spa in Biarritz
(b) Fishing
(c) On a carriage ride
(d) A country house for the summer
10. Why does the narrator believe that the figure in the wallpaper is inactive during the day?
(a) She is sleeping
(b) She is scared
(c) She is distracted by the wallpaper
(d) She is eating
11. What does John promise the narrator?
(a) New books
(b) A little trip
(c) Another baby
(d) A new home
12. Why does the narrator stop looking out the windows?
(a) She doesn’t want John to see her
(b) She sees lots of creeping women
(c) She’s afraid she’ll jump out
(d) It is making her feel dizzy
13. Where doesn’t the narrator want to go at the end of the story?
(a) Home
(b) Outside
(c) To the kitchen
(d) To the nursery
14. What does the narrator say she watches always?
(a) The baby
(b) The television
(c) The wallpaper
(d) The window
15. John calls the narrator back to bed by calling her this name:
(a) Little girl
(b) Pumpkin
(c) Honey Darling
(d) Sweetheart
Short Answer Questions
1. What does the narrator throw down into the garden path?
2. Who carries the narrator upstairs to her room?
3. Why can’t the door to the nursery be opened?
4. Why won’t John let the narrator go on her desired visit?
5. What does the narrator initially want to do with a rope?
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