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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What is the illness that the narrator is suffering from?
(a) Post-partum depression
(b) Schizophrenia
(c) Bi-polar disorder
(d) Severe loneliness

4. Who is the housekeeper?
(a) Mary, the nursemaid
(b) Jennie, John’s sister
(c) John
(d) Weir Mitchell

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

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

7. 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) Line
(d) Stripe

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 weeks
(d) Two years

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

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

11. What does the narrator say she watches always?
(a) The baby
(b) The window
(c) The television
(d) The wallpaper

12. The narrator begs John to _______:
(a) Go shopping
(b) Leave
(c) Bring the baby to her
(d) Cuddle with her

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does the narrator think she sees creeping outside her windows?

2. Whom does the narrator want to visit?

3. Who carries the narrator upstairs to her room?

4. What does the narrator stop mentioning to John and Jennie?

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

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