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

3. 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) Anguish
(b) Derision
(c) Hysterics
(d) Laughter

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

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

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

7. What does John cry for to break down the door?
(a) An axe
(b) A sledgehammer
(c) A fire poker
(d) A butcher knife

8. In what point of view is the story written?
(a) Second
(b) Third, limited
(c) First
(d) Third, omniscient

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

10. What type of figure does the narrator believe she sees in the pattern?
(a) A child
(b) A man
(c) An infant
(d) A woman

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

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

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

14. Why does the narrator stop looking out the windows?
(a) She’s afraid she’ll jump out
(b) It is making her feel dizzy
(c) She sees lots of creeping women
(d) She doesn’t want John to see her

15. Whom does the narrator want to visit?
(a) Her mother and Father
(b) Her sister Jane and husband
(c) Her dog, Jasper, at the city house
(d) Her cousin Henry and Julia

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the narrator think is happening to the wallpaper pattern at night?

2. What does the narrator think John is looking at when he is in the room?

3. The narrator believes that the wallpaper has a ________.

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

5. What is the profession of the narrator’s husband?

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