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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 think John is looking at when he is in the room?
(a) The nailed-down bed
(b) The wallpaper
(c) The view out the window
(d) The bars on the window

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

3. What does the narrator think is happening to the wallpaper pattern at night?
(a) It is talking to her
(b) It is peeling itself off of the wall
(c) It is shaking
(d) It is humming

4. Fill in the blank: As she is peeling the wallpaper off, she thinks that the pattern of heads and bulbous eyes are “shrieking with _________”?
(a) Derision
(b) Hysterics
(c) Anguish
(d) Laughter

5. 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.
(a) Stripe
(b) Vine
(c) Line
(d) Smooch

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

7. Where does the narrator spend most of her time in the country house?
(a) The nursery
(b) The baby’s room
(c) The back porch
(d) Walking along the garden pathways

8. Who does John ask to give a report about the narrator’s wellbeing?
(a) Weir Mitchell
(b) Jennie
(c) Mary
(d) The narrator

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

10. In the first section, why does the protagonist’s narration suddenly end?
(a) Her husband is coming
(b) She is out of paper
(c) She falls asleep
(d) She has nothing else to say

11. How long is John gone for toward the end of the story?
(a) One month
(b) One week
(c) One hour
(d) One night

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

13. Who does the narrator say is her one comfort?
(a) Mother
(b) Jennie
(c) The baby
(d) John

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

15. What figure becomes very clear in moonlight, clearer than before: “plain as can be.”
(a) An infant
(b) A child
(c) A woman
(d) A man

Short Answer Questions

1. Why can’t the door to the nursery be opened?

2. What is torn off in patches in the country house?

3. Who comes to the door when the narrator is creeping along the wall?

4. Who carries the narrator upstairs to her room?

5. What does the narrator believe cultivates deceit?

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