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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the narrator initially want to do with a rope?
(a) Use it to move the bed from the wall
(b) Use it to tie up the woman if she tries to escape
(c) Use it to hang the woman
(d) Use it to escape out the window

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

9. Who faints at the end of the story?
(a) John
(b) Weir Mitchell
(c) Jennie
(d) The narrator

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

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

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

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

14. What does the narrator say it looks like the bed has been through?
(a) Centuries
(b) Neglectful housekeeping
(c) Many fitful children
(d) Wars

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is torn off in patches in the country house?

2. The narrator believes that the wallpaper has a(n) _________.

3. Who does the narrator become afraid of?

4. Who is the author of The Yellow Wallpaper?

5. What does the narrator throw down into the garden path?

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