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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who does the narrator think she sees creeping outside her windows?
(a) Mary
(b) John
(c) Jennie
(d) The woman in the wallpaper

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

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

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

5. What does the narrator think that the figure in the wallpaper is trying to do?
(a) Fight the wallpaper pattern
(b) Escape
(c) Eat dinner
(d) Sleep

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

7. What does the housekeeper think has made the narrator sick?
(a) Childbirth
(b) Lyme disease
(c) Writing
(d) Reading

8. 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) Laughter
(c) Derision
(d) Hysterics

9. John advices the narrator to not allow the what to run away with her?
(a) Her hunger
(b) Her fancies
(c) Her motherly love
(d) Gardener

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

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

12. 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) Line
(b) Vine
(c) Smooch
(d) Stripe

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

14. What does the narrator stop mentioning to John and Jennie?
(a) The wallpaper
(b) The baby
(c) The sickness
(d) The nursery

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does John ask to give a report about the narrator’s wellbeing?

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

3. In the last paragraph, what does the narrator do?

4. Who faints at the end of the story?

5. Why does the narrator stop looking out the windows?

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