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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does the narrator try - but fails – to move?
(a) The chair
(b) The bed
(c) The desk
(d) The lamp

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

4. 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) Smooch
(b) Vine
(c) Stripe
(d) Line

5. Where does the narrator’s husband take her at the beginning of the story?
(a) Fishing
(b) On a carriage ride
(c) A country house for the summer
(d) A wellness spa in Biarritz

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

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

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 days
(b) Two months
(c) Two years
(d) Two weeks

9. What does John promise the narrator?
(a) A new home
(b) New books
(c) A little trip
(d) Another baby

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

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

12. In her fury, what does the narrator bite?
(a) The bed
(b) The windowsill
(c) The rope
(d) The wallpaper

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

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

15. What does the narrator “securely fasten” herself with?
(a) Restrictive clothing
(b) The bed sheets
(c) The drapery
(d) A rope

Short Answer Questions

1. The protagonist is narrating her what?

2. John calls the narrator back to bed by calling her this name:

3. The narrator follows what/whom?

4. What does the housekeeper think has made the narrator sick?

5. What does the narrator do while John is gone?

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