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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. Who does the narrator plan on helping while John is away?
(a) The woman in the wallpaper
(b) Her infant
(c) John
(d) Jennie

4. Who does the narrator want to help the woman in the wallpaper?
(a) John
(b) Herself
(c) Jennie
(d) Mary

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

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

7. Who or what does think is shaking the wallpaper?
(a) The bars
(b) The pattern
(c) The yellow color
(d) The woman

8. What does the narrator increasingly like about her bedroom?
(a) The view of the gardens
(b) The desk at which she writes
(c) The wallpaper
(d) The bed

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

10. Why can’t the door to the nursery be opened?
(a) The narrator has the key and will not unlock it.
(b) It is locked and there is no key
(c) The handle is broken
(d) It is stuck

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

12. What does the narrator say she watches always?
(a) The television
(b) The wallpaper
(c) The window
(d) The baby

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. At the climax of the story, who does the narrator think that she has become?

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

3. Who faints at the end of the story?

4. In the first section, why does the protagonist’s narration suddenly end?

5. John thinks the narrator is getting _________ when he talks to her in the night.

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