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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. The narrator believes that the wallpaper has a(n) _________.
(a) An alibi
(b) An odor
(c) A stain
(d) A feeling

3. Who carries the narrator upstairs to her room?
(a) John
(b) Jennie
(c) Ronaldo
(d) The groundskeeper

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

5. What is the profession of the narrator’s husband?
(a) Lawyer
(b) Physician
(c) Politician
(d) Writer

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

7. In the last paragraph, what does the narrator do?
(a) Call for help
(b) Cry
(c) Walk over John who is in her path
(d) Leave the room and walk out into the dark night

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

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

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

11. John calls the narrator back to bed by calling her this name:
(a) Pumpkin
(b) Honey Darling
(c) Little girl
(d) Sweetheart

12. Who is the author of The Yellow Wallpaper?
(a) Charlotte Perkins Gilman
(b) Emily Bronte
(c) Jane Austen
(d) Barbara Kingsolver

13. The narrator follows what/whom?
(a) Her son around the house
(b) A horse in the field
(c) John around the gardens
(d) The wallpaper’s pattern around the room

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

15. Why can’t the figure in the pattern escape?
(a) She needs the narrator to help her
(b) She doesn’t really want to escape
(c) She can’t find her way out
(d) The pattern would strangle her

Short Answer Questions

1. Whom does the narrator want to visit?

2. What does the narrator say she watches always?

3. What does the narrator say it looks like the bed has been through?

4. What does John promise the narrator?

5. What does John force the narrator to do after every meal?

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