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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does the narrator believe that the figure in the wallpaper is inactive during the day?
(a) She is eating
(b) She is sleeping
(c) She is scared
(d) She is distracted by the wallpaper

2. Why won’t John let the narrator go on her desired visit?
(a) It is too costly to travel
(b) He believes that she hasn’t the strength
(c) He doesn’t think it will be good if she leaves the baby
(d) He believes it isn’t necessary

3. Where does her shoulder “just” fit?
(a) Out the window
(b) In a nook in the corner
(c) In the hole in the wall
(d) In the long smooch along the wall

4. What is the profession of the narrator’s husband?
(a) Politician
(b) Physician
(c) Writer
(d) Lawyer

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

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

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

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

9. What year was this story published?
(a) 1892
(b) 2001
(c) 1888
(d) 1980

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

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

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the housekeeper?

2. What does the narrator increasingly like about her bedroom?

3. Why does the unnamed protagonist believe that she and her husband were able to rent the mansion for the summer?

4. What holiday passes while the family is staying at the country house?

5. The narrator describes the wallpaper having a recurrent spot where the pattern lolls like a broken neck and _____________

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