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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. What does the housekeeper think has made the narrator sick?
(a) Lyme disease
(b) Writing
(c) Reading
(d) Childbirth

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) Line
(b) Stripe
(c) Smooch
(d) Vine

3. When does the narrator say the wallpaper becomes clearer?
(a) In the evening
(b) In the morning
(c) In the moonlight
(d) In the afternoon

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What holiday passes while the family is staying at the country house?

2. Who does the narrator want to help the woman in the wallpaper?

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

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

5. Who carries the narrator upstairs to her room?

Short Essay Questions

1. What major life event has the narrator just endured?

2. How does the narrator say John feels about intangible things?

3. What does what John calls the narrator in the middle of the nightsuggest about their relationship?

4. Why doesn’t the narrator want others to touch the wallpaper?

5. What is the wallpaper’s odor a metaphor for?

6. At what point does this short story hit its climax?

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

8. Why does the narrator abruptly end her narration in the first few pages?

9. Who is Weir Mitchell?

10. How does the narrator describe the countryside?

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