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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. What color stains does Jennie find on their clothing?
(a) Red
(b) Yellow
(c) Black
(d) Green
2. What is the narrator’s husband’s name?
(a) William
(b) Max
(c) Thomas
(d) John
3. In what genre would this story be categorized?
(a) An article
(b) A personal essay
(c) A novel
(d) A novella
4. Where does the narrator’s husband take her at the beginning of the story?
(a) On a carriage ride
(b) Fishing
(c) A wellness spa in Biarritz
(d) A country house for the summer
5. 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) Hysterics
(b) Anguish
(c) Laughter
(d) Derision
6. What is the illness that the narrator is suffering from?
(a) Post-partum depression
(b) Bi-polar disorder
(c) Schizophrenia
(d) Severe loneliness
7. Where does the narrator plan to go at nightfall, describing that it will be difficult to do?
(a) The nursery
(b) The garden
(c) Into the wallpaper
(d) Home to her apartment in the country
8. What does the narrator say it looks like the bed has been through?
(a) Wars
(b) Neglectful housekeeping
(c) Centuries
(d) Many fitful children
9. What does the narrator think that the figure in the wallpaper is trying to do?
(a) Eat dinner
(b) Fight the wallpaper pattern
(c) Sleep
(d) Escape
10. In the first section, why does the protagonist’s narration suddenly end?
(a) She is out of paper
(b) She has nothing else to say
(c) Her husband is coming
(d) She falls asleep
11. Who carries the narrator upstairs to her room?
(a) John
(b) Jennie
(c) The groundskeeper
(d) Ronaldo
12. When the narrator makes the plan to get off the wallpaper before John notices, how long do they have left at the house?
(a) Two days
(b) Two years
(c) Two weeks
(d) Two months
13. How does the narrator describe the “report” that was given?
(a) Fair
(b) Bad
(c) Good
(d) Crazy
14. 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) Stripe
(c) Vine
(d) Line
15. The narrator believes that the wallpaper has a ________.
(a) Present for her
(b) Beautiful pattern
(c) Secret message
(d) Sub-design
Short Answer Questions
1. What does the narrator throw down into the garden path?
2. In her fury, what does the narrator bite?
3. Who does the narrator think she sees creeping outside her windows?
4. Where does the narrator spend most of her time in the country house?
5. Why won’t John let the narrator go on her desired visit?
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