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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. Who carries the narrator upstairs to her room?
(a) The groundskeeper
(b) John
(c) Ronaldo
(d) Jennie

4. Fill in the blank: As she is peeling the wallpaper off, she thinks that the pattern of heads and bulbous eyes are “shrieking with _________”?
(a) Anguish
(b) Laughter
(c) Derision
(d) Hysterics

5. Who does John ask to give a report about the narrator’s wellbeing?
(a) Weir Mitchell
(b) Jennie
(c) The narrator
(d) Mary

6. What type of figure does the narrator believe she sees in the pattern?
(a) A child
(b) An infant
(c) A woman
(d) A man

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

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

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

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

12. What does the narrator stop mentioning to John and Jennie?
(a) The wallpaper
(b) The sickness
(c) The baby
(d) The nursery

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. When does the narrator say the wallpaper becomes clearer?

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

3. Where does her shoulder “just” fit?

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

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

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