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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Fill in the blank: The narrator is so angry at the climax of the story that she wants to ___________.
(a) Cry
(b) Kill John
(c) Sleep
(d) Jump out the window

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

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

4. What does John force the narrator to do after every meal?
(a) Walk through the garden
(b) Bathe
(c) Take a nap
(d) Drink coffee

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

6. Whose perspective is the story being told from?
(a) The unnamed protagonist’s
(b) John’s
(c) Jennie’s
(d) Jane’s

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

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

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

10. At the climax of the story, who does the narrator think that she has become?
(a) Mary
(b) Jennie
(c) John
(d) The woman in the wallpaper

11. The story covers the span of what season?
(a) Spring
(b) Fall
(c) Winter
(d) Summer

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

13. The narrator describes the wallpaper having a recurrent spot where the pattern lolls like a broken neck and _____________
(a) it scares me
(b) two bulbous eyes stare at you upside down
(c) an eyeless face sneers at you
(d) a scabrous mouth opens again and again, as if screaming

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Fill in the blanks respectively: I _________ at nothing, and ________most of the time.

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

3. Who or what does think is shaking the wallpaper?

4. John’s reason for not taking the narrator away from the summerhouse and frightful bedroom is?

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

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