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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. 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) Smooch
(b) Stripe
(c) Vine
(d) Line

3. John advices the narrator to not allow the what to run away with her?
(a) Gardener
(b) Her fancies
(c) Her motherly love
(d) Her hunger

4. John calls the narrator back to bed by calling her this name:
(a) Honey Darling
(b) Pumpkin
(c) Little girl
(d) Sweetheart

5. 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 that she hasn’t the strength
(d) He believes it isn’t necessary

6. 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

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

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

9. What does the narrator think about doing to the house “to reach the smell”?
(a) Re-paint the house
(b) Burn the house down
(c) Wash all of the surfaces with ammonia
(d) Re-furnishing the house

10. Jennie says what stains all of their clothing?
(a) Wine
(b) Flower pollen
(c) The wallpaper
(d) Infant formula

11. 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

12. What does the narrator think John is looking at when he is in the room?
(a) The wallpaper
(b) The nailed-down bed
(c) The view out the window
(d) The bars on the window

13. What does Jennie not realize that the narrator has?
(a) Food
(b) A chain
(c) A knife
(d) A rope

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

15. How long is John gone for toward the end of the story?
(a) One night
(b) One week
(c) One month
(d) One hour

Short Answer Questions

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

2. John’s reason for not taking the narrator away from the summerhouse and frightful bedroom is?

3. Who does the narrator become afraid of?

4. The narrator believes that the wallpaper has a(n) _________.

5. Where doesn’t the narrator want to go at the end of the story?

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