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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. At the climax of the story, who does the narrator think that she has become?
(a) Mary
(b) The woman in the wallpaper
(c) John
(d) Jennie

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

4. Why does the narrator stop looking out the windows?
(a) She’s afraid she’ll jump out
(b) She doesn’t want John to see her
(c) It is making her feel dizzy
(d) She sees lots of creeping women

5. The narrator believes that the wallpaper has a(n) _________.
(a) An odor
(b) A stain
(c) An alibi
(d) A feeling

6. Who does the narrator want to help the woman in the wallpaper?
(a) Jennie
(b) John
(c) Mary
(d) Herself

7. What is the profession of the narrator’s husband?
(a) Writer
(b) Physician
(c) Lawyer
(d) Politician

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

9. 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) He wants to live there permanently
(c) The baby is ill and cannot travel
(d) Their lease is up in three weeks

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

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

12. What does the narrator do while John is gone?
(a) Runs away
(b) Peels the wallpaper
(c) Shreds the sheets
(d) Jumps out the window

13. Why won’t John let the narrator go on her desired visit?
(a) He believes that she hasn’t the strength
(b) He doesn’t think it will be good if she leaves the baby
(c) It is too costly to travel
(d) He believes it isn’t necessary

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

15. Whose perspective is the story being told from?
(a) Jane’s
(b) Jennie’s
(c) John’s
(d) The unnamed protagonist’s

Short Answer Questions

1. What color stains does Jennie find on their clothing?

2. In the last paragraph, what does the narrator do?

3. What is nailed down in the narrator’s room?

4. John thinks the narrator is getting _________ when he talks to her in the night.

5. Who does the narrator become afraid of?

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