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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does John force the narrator to do after every meal?
(a) Take a nap
(b) Walk through the garden
(c) Bathe
(d) Drink coffee

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

4. The narrator describes the wallpaper having a recurrent spot where the pattern lolls like a broken neck and _____________
(a) a scabrous mouth opens again and again, as if screaming
(b) it scares me
(c) two bulbous eyes stare at you upside down
(d) an eyeless face sneers at you

5. In the last paragraph, what does the narrator do?
(a) Call for help
(b) Cry
(c) Walk over John who is in her path
(d) Leave the room and walk out into the dark night

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

7. The narrator believes that the wallpaper has a ________.
(a) Sub-design
(b) Secret message
(c) Present for her
(d) Beautiful pattern

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

9. In what point of view is the story written?
(a) Third, omniscient
(b) Second
(c) Third, limited
(d) First

10. What does the narrator increasingly like about her bedroom?
(a) The view of the gardens
(b) The wallpaper
(c) The desk at which she writes
(d) The bed

11. What year was this story published?
(a) 1980
(b) 1888
(c) 1892
(d) 2001

12. John threatens to send the narrator to whom?
(a) William Overtell
(b) Weir Mitchell
(c) Wallis Simpson
(d) Walter West

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. The protagonist is narrating her what?

2. John calls the narrator back to bed by calling her this name:

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

4. What does the housekeeper think has made the narrator sick?

5. In the opening pages, what does the narrator’s husband not believe?

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