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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Jennie says what stains all of their clothing?
(a) Wine
(b) Flower pollen
(c) The wallpaper
(d) Infant formula

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

3. How does the narrator describe the “report” that was given?
(a) Fair
(b) Good
(c) Bad
(d) Crazy

4. What color stains does Jennie find on their clothing?
(a) Yellow
(b) Green
(c) Black
(d) Red

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

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

7. John’s reason for not taking the narrator away from the summerhouse and frightful bedroom is?
(a) Their lease is up in three weeks
(b) He believes that if she stays she’ll get better
(c) The baby is ill and cannot travel
(d) He wants to live there permanently

8. 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 days
(c) Two years
(d) Two weeks

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

10. 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) It is making her feel dizzy
(d) She’s afraid she’ll jump out

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

12. The narrator gets up in the middle of the night to do what?
(a) Feel if the wallpaper is moving
(b) Get a drink of water
(c) Feed her baby
(d) Run away

13. Why does the unnamed protagonist believe that she and her husband were able to rent the mansion for the summer?
(a) Because it is haunted
(b) They received an inheritance
(c) They were evicted from their city home
(d) Because her husband needs to visit for work

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. The narrator follows what/whom?

2. Where doesn’t the narrator want to go at the end of the story?

3. In what point of view is the story written?

4. Fill in the blank: The narrator is so angry at the climax of the story that she wants to ___________.

5. What is the illness that the narrator is suffering from?

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