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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

5. What does the narrator think is happening to the wallpaper pattern at night?
(a) It is talking to her
(b) It is peeling itself off of the wall
(c) It is humming
(d) It is shaking

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

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

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

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

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

11. What does the narrator think about doing to the house “to reach the smell”?
(a) Re-paint the house
(b) Burn the house down
(c) Wash all of the surfaces with ammonia
(d) Re-furnishing the house

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

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

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

15. What figure becomes very clear in moonlight, clearer than before: “plain as can be.”
(a) A child
(b) A woman
(c) A man
(d) An infant

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does John go toward the end of the story?

2. Where does the narrator spend most of her time in the country house?

3. What does the narrator stop mentioning to John and Jennie?

4. What does the narrator think John is looking at when he is in the room?

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

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