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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the narrator believe cultivates deceit?
(a) Writing in her journal
(b) Eating sweets when no one is looking
(c) Lying awake during the sanctioned naptimes
(d) Watching the wallpaper

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

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

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

5. What does the narrator do while John is gone?
(a) Shreds the sheets
(b) Peels the wallpaper
(c) Runs away
(d) Jumps out the window

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

7. Who faints at the end of the story?
(a) Jennie
(b) Weir Mitchell
(c) John
(d) The narrator

8. 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) Hysterics
(b) Anguish
(c) Derision
(d) Laughter

9. What holiday passes while the family is staying at the country house?
(a) Easter
(b) Thanksgiving
(c) New Year’s Eve
(d) Fourth of July

10. Who comes to the door when the narrator is creeping along the wall?
(a) Jennie
(b) Mary
(c) John
(d) Weir Mitchell

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

12. Why does the narrator believe that the figure in the wallpaper is inactive during the day?
(a) She is sleeping
(b) She is scared
(c) She is eating
(d) She is distracted by the wallpaper

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

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

15. Where does John go toward the end of the story?
(a) To work
(b) To the sea
(c) To visit family
(d) To town

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does the narrator’s husband take her at the beginning of the story?

2. What does the narrator say she watches always?

3. Who does the narrator think she sees creeping outside her windows?

4. How much time passes before the narration continues after it suddenly stopped in the first section?

5. The protagonist is narrating her what?

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