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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. What does John make the narrator drink as a cure?
(a) Milk
(b) Green tea
(c) Water
(d) Cod liver oil
2. Who or what does think is shaking the wallpaper?
(a) The bars
(b) The pattern
(c) The woman
(d) The yellow color
3. When does the narrator think the woman in the wallpaper gets out?
(a) During the nighttime
(b) During the daytime
(c) When she is tired
(d) When she is hungry
4. How does the narrator describe the “report” that was given?
(a) Bad
(b) Crazy
(c) Good
(d) Fair
5. The protagonist is narrating her what?
(a) Letter to her physician
(b) Diary
(c) Letter to her mother
(d) Article for a woman’s magazine
6. The story covers the span of what season?
(a) Winter
(b) Spring
(c) Fall
(d) Summer
7. What does the narrator “securely fasten” herself with?
(a) The bed sheets
(b) Restrictive clothing
(c) The drapery
(d) A rope
8. What does John force the narrator to do after every meal?
(a) Take a nap
(b) Drink coffee
(c) Walk through the garden
(d) Bathe
9. What does the narrator increasingly like about her bedroom?
(a) The bed
(b) The desk at which she writes
(c) The wallpaper
(d) The view of the gardens
10. In what genre would this story be categorized?
(a) A personal essay
(b) A novel
(c) A novella
(d) An article
11. What does the narrator do while John is gone?
(a) Jumps out the window
(b) Peels the wallpaper
(c) Shreds the sheets
(d) Runs away
12. John thinks the narrator is getting _________ when he talks to her in the night.
(a) Better, saying that her appetite has returned and her flesh is gaining color
(b) The same, and she needs additional time to rest
(c) Worse, he’s sending her away to Weir Mitchell
(d) He does not express his opinion regarding the state of her health
13. In the opening pages, what does the narrator’s husband not believe?
(a) How expensive the summer home is
(b) That the narrator is sick
(c) That the baby is his
(d) That women should be allowed to vote
14. What holiday passes while the family is staying at the country house?
(a) New Year’s Eve
(b) Thanksgiving
(c) Fourth of July
(d) Easter
15. When the narrator makes the plan to get off the wallpaper before John notices, how long do they have left at the house?
(a) Two days
(b) Two years
(c) Two weeks
(d) Two months
Short Answer Questions
1. The narrator follows what/whom?
2. Where does her shoulder “just” fit?
3. Whose perspective is the story being told from?
4. What does Jennie not realize that the narrator has?
5. What is nailed down in the narrator’s room?
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