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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What type of figure does the narrator believe she sees in the pattern?
(a) An infant
(b) A woman
(c) A man
(d) A child

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

3. Where does the narrator plan to go at nightfall, describing that it will be difficult to do?
(a) Home to her apartment in the country
(b) Into the wallpaper
(c) The garden
(d) The nursery

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

5. How does the narrator describe the “report” that was given?
(a) Crazy
(b) Bad
(c) Fair
(d) Good

6. What is nailed down in the narrator’s room?
(a) The bed
(b) The desk
(c) The reading chair
(d) The rug

7. 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

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

9. Why can’t the figure in the pattern escape?
(a) The pattern would strangle her
(b) She needs the narrator to help her
(c) She doesn’t really want to escape
(d) She can’t find her way out

10. What is the narrator’s husband’s name?
(a) John
(b) Max
(c) Thomas
(d) William

11. In her fury, what does the narrator bite?
(a) The rope
(b) The bed
(c) The windowsill
(d) The wallpaper

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

13. Fill in the blanks respectively: I _________ at nothing, and ________most of the time.
(a) Laugh, laugh
(b) Cry, cry
(c) Cry, laugh
(d) Laugh, cry

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Which room does the narrator’s husband choose for her room?

2. Who comes to the door when the narrator is creeping along the wall?

3. In the first section, why does the protagonist’s narration suddenly end?

4. 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.

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

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