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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does the narrator describe the “report” that was given?
(a) Bad
(b) Fair
(c) Good
(d) Crazy

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

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

4. When does the narrator say the wallpaper becomes clearer?
(a) In the morning
(b) In the evening
(c) In the afternoon
(d) In the moonlight

5. When does the narrator think the woman in the wallpaper gets out?
(a) During the nighttime
(b) When she is hungry
(c) When she is tired
(d) During the daytime

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

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

8. Why does the unnamed protagonist believe that she and her husband were able to rent the mansion for the summer?
(a) Because it is haunted
(b) They were evicted from their city home
(c) They received an inheritance
(d) Because her husband needs to visit for work

9. Where does John go toward the end of the story?
(a) To visit family
(b) To town
(c) To work
(d) To the sea

10. Which room does the narrator’s husband choose for her room?
(a) A screened-in porch
(b) The parlor
(c) A guest apartment suite
(d) The nursery

11. What does the narrator think about doing to the house “to reach the smell”?
(a) Re-paint the house
(b) Burn the house down
(c) Wash all of the surfaces with ammonia
(d) Re-furnishing the house

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

13. What does the narrator think is happening to the wallpaper pattern at night?
(a) It is shaking
(b) It is talking to her
(c) It is peeling itself off of the wall
(d) It is humming

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. John thinks the narrator is getting _________ when he talks to her in the night.

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

4. Why does the narrator believe that the figure in the wallpaper is inactive during the day?

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

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