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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does the narrator describe the wallpaper’s smell?
(a) A yellow smell
(b) A sour smell
(c) A sweet smell
(d) A black smell

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

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

5. The narrator gets up in the middle of the night to do what?
(a) Feel if the wallpaper is moving
(b) Feed her baby
(c) Get a drink of water
(d) Run away

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

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

8. Why can’t the door to the nursery be opened?
(a) The narrator has the key and will not unlock it.
(b) It is locked and there is no key
(c) It is stuck
(d) The handle is broken

9. What does John make the narrator drink as a cure?
(a) Green tea
(b) Water
(c) Milk
(d) Cod liver oil

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

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

12. What color stains does Jennie find on their clothing?
(a) Green
(b) Yellow
(c) Black
(d) Red

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does the narrator think is happening to the wallpaper pattern at night?

3. What type of figure does the narrator believe she sees in the pattern?

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

5. In the first section, why does the protagonist’s narration suddenly end?

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