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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who or what does think is shaking the wallpaper?
(a) The yellow color
(b) The woman
(c) The pattern
(d) The bars

2. What is torn off in patches in the country house?
(a) The garden-shed roof
(b) The wooden floor
(c) The curtains
(d) The wallpaper

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

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

5. Who does John ask to give a report about the narrator’s wellbeing?
(a) Jennie
(b) The narrator
(c) Weir Mitchell
(d) Mary

6. What does Jennie not realize that the narrator has?
(a) A chain
(b) Food
(c) A knife
(d) A rope

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

8. 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) Line
(c) Vine
(d) Stripe

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

10. Who is the author of The Yellow Wallpaper?
(a) Jane Austen
(b) Charlotte Perkins Gilman
(c) Barbara Kingsolver
(d) Emily Bronte

11. What does John make the narrator drink as a cure?
(a) Cod liver oil
(b) Green tea
(c) Water
(d) Milk

12. In what genre would this story be categorized?
(a) A personal essay
(b) A novel
(c) An article
(d) A novella

13. Who does the narrator want to help the woman in the wallpaper?
(a) Herself
(b) Mary
(c) Jennie
(d) John

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

15. What does the narrator do while John is gone?
(a) Runs away
(b) Jumps out the window
(c) Peels the wallpaper
(d) Shreds the sheets

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the narrator think that the figure in the wallpaper is trying to do?

2. What does the housekeeper think has made the narrator sick?

3. John advices the narrator to not allow the what to run away with her?

4. What does John cry for to break down the door?

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

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