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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The protagonist is narrating her what?
(a) Letter to her physician
(b) Article for a woman’s magazine
(c) Letter to her mother
(d) Diary

2. Where does John go toward the end of the story?
(a) To the sea
(b) To work
(c) To town
(d) To visit family

3. What does the narrator initially want to do with a rope?
(a) Use it to tie up the woman if she tries to escape
(b) Use it to hang the woman
(c) Use it to move the bed from the wall
(d) Use it to escape out the window

4. 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) Laughter
(b) Hysterics
(c) Anguish
(d) Derision

5. How long is John gone for toward the end of the story?
(a) One month
(b) One hour
(c) One night
(d) One week

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

7. Who does the narrator plan on helping while John is away?
(a) John
(b) Her infant
(c) The woman in the wallpaper
(d) Jennie

8. John advices the narrator to not allow the what to run away with her?
(a) Her hunger
(b) Her fancies
(c) Her motherly love
(d) Gardener

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

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

11. What does the moonlight illuminate on the wallpaper?
(a) Roast beef
(b) Bars
(c) Knives
(d) Honeycombs

12. What does the narrator throw down into the garden path?
(a) The key to the room
(b) The rope
(c) A knife
(d) The shreds of wallpaper

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

14. Which room does the narrator’s husband choose for her room?
(a) The parlor
(b) A screened-in porch
(c) The nursery
(d) A guest apartment suite

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. The narrator believes that the wallpaper has a ________.

4. When the narrator makes the plan to get off the wallpaper before John notices, how long do they have left at the house?

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

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