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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where does her shoulder “just” fit?
(a) In the long smooch along the wall
(b) In a nook in the corner
(c) Out the window
(d) In the hole in the wall

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

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

4. What is the illness that the narrator is suffering from?
(a) Post-partum depression
(b) Schizophrenia
(c) Severe loneliness
(d) Bi-polar disorder

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Whose perspective is the story being told from?

2. What figure becomes very clear in moonlight, clearer than before: “plain as can be.”

3. Who or what does think is shaking the wallpaper?

4. The story covers the span of what season?

5. Which room does the narrator’s husband choose for her room?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does the woman in the wallpaper do to shake the pattern?

2. What does John call the narrator in the middle of the night? And why?

3. What are some indications that the narrator is, in fact, not getting better?

4. Why doesn’t the narrator cry in front of Jennie or John?

5. Why doesn’t the narrator want to go outside near the climax of the story?

6. What does John’s action after seeing his wife creeping around the room suggest about John?

7. Why have the narrator and her husband rented the summer house?

8. Why does the narrator consider jumping out the window?

9. What does the fact that the narrator says John “pretended to be living and kind” suggest about the narrator’s condition?

10. Why does it bother the narrator that she cannot read or write while recuperating?

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