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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where does the narrator’s husband take her at the beginning of the story?
(a) On a carriage ride
(b) A country house for the summer
(c) Fishing
(d) A wellness spa in Biarritz

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

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

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

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

6. What does John promise the narrator?
(a) A new home
(b) Another baby
(c) New books
(d) A little trip

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

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

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

10. Who does the narrator become afraid of?
(a) John
(b) The baby
(c) Jennie
(d) Mother

11. Fill in the blank: The narrator is so angry at the climax of the story that she wants to ___________.
(a) Jump out the window
(b) Kill John
(c) Cry
(d) Sleep

12. 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

13. What figure becomes very clear in moonlight, clearer than before: “plain as can be.”
(a) A woman
(b) A child
(c) An infant
(d) A man

14. What does the moonlight illuminate on the wallpaper?
(a) Knives
(b) Bars
(c) Roast beef
(d) Honeycombs

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the illness that the narrator is suffering from?

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

3. The narrator begs John to _______:

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

5. Where does John go toward the end of the story?

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