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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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

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

3. Why does the unnamed protagonist believe that she and her husband were able to rent the mansion for the summer?
(a) They received an inheritance
(b) Because it is haunted
(c) Because her husband needs to visit for work
(d) They were evicted from their city home

4. John’s reason for not taking the narrator away from the summerhouse and frightful bedroom is?
(a) He believes that if she stays she’ll get better
(b) The baby is ill and cannot travel
(c) He wants to live there permanently
(d) Their lease is up in three weeks

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

6. What does John cry for to break down the door?
(a) A sledgehammer
(b) A butcher knife
(c) A fire poker
(d) An axe

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

8. What is the illness that the narrator is suffering from?
(a) Post-partum depression
(b) Schizophrenia
(c) Bi-polar disorder
(d) Severe loneliness

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

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

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

12. How much time passes before the narration continues after it suddenly stopped in the first section?
(a) One Month
(b) Two months
(c) Three days
(d) Two weeks

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

14. What does John make the narrator drink as a cure?
(a) Green tea
(b) Milk
(c) Cod liver oil
(d) Water

15. Whom does the narrator want to visit?
(a) Her cousin Henry and Julia
(b) Her sister Jane and husband
(c) Her dog, Jasper, at the city house
(d) Her mother and Father

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does the narrator want to help the woman in the wallpaper?

2. What figure becomes very clear in moonlight, clearer than before: “plain as can be.”

3. Who does the narrator become afraid of?

4. Who is the author of The Yellow Wallpaper?

5. How does the narrator describe the wallpaper’s smell?

(see the answer keys)

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