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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the housekeeper think has made the narrator sick?
(a) Reading
(b) Writing
(c) Lyme disease
(d) Childbirth

2. In the opening pages, what does the narrator’s husband not believe?
(a) That the narrator is sick
(b) That the baby is his
(c) That women should be allowed to vote
(d) How expensive the summer home is

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

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

5. Who does the narrator say is her one comfort?
(a) Jennie
(b) John
(c) The baby
(d) Mother

6. What is torn off in patches in the country house?
(a) The garden-shed roof
(b) The curtains
(c) The wallpaper
(d) The wooden floor

7. When does the narrator say the wallpaper becomes clearer?
(a) In the morning
(b) In the evening
(c) In the moonlight
(d) In the afternoon

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

9. When does the narrator think the woman in the wallpaper gets out?
(a) When she is tired
(b) During the daytime
(c) During the nighttime
(d) When she is hungry

10. 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.
(a) Vine
(b) Stripe
(c) Line
(d) Smooch

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

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

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

14. In what genre would this story be categorized?
(a) A personal essay
(b) A novella
(c) A novel
(d) An article

15. John thinks the narrator is getting _________ when he talks to her in the night.
(a) Better, saying that her appetite has returned and her flesh is gaining color
(b) The same, and she needs additional time to rest
(c) Worse, he’s sending her away to Weir Mitchell
(d) He does not express his opinion regarding the state of her health

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does John ask to give a report about the narrator’s wellbeing?

2. What year was this story published?

3. What does the narrator try - but fails – to move?

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

5. Fill in the blank: As she is peeling the wallpaper off, she thinks that the pattern of heads and bulbous eyes are “shrieking with _________”?

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