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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 narrator stop mentioning to John and Jennie?
(a) The wallpaper
(b) The baby
(c) The sickness
(d) The nursery
2. Fill in the blank: The narrator is so angry at the climax of the story that she wants to ___________.
(a) Jump out the window
(b) Kill John
(c) Sleep
(d) Cry
3. Why can’t the door to the nursery be opened?
(a) The handle is broken
(b) The narrator has the key and will not unlock it.
(c) It is stuck
(d) It is locked and there is no key
4. What color stains does Jennie find on their clothing?
(a) Yellow
(b) Red
(c) Black
(d) Green
5. What does Jennie not realize that the narrator has?
(a) A chain
(b) Food
(c) A knife
(d) A rope
Short Answer Questions
1. John threatens to send the narrator to whom?
2. Where does the narrator’s husband take her at the beginning of the story?
3. Whose perspective is the story being told from?
4. What is the illness that the narrator is suffering from?
5. The narrator believes that the wallpaper has a(n) _________.
Short Essay Questions
1. The narrator believes the wallpaper has an odor. How does she describe the odor?
2. Why is the narrator afraid of being sent to Weir Mitchell?
3. The narrator considers burning the house down to “reach the smell.” What does this say about her condition?
4. How does the narrator initially explain her condition?
5. What does the fact that the narrator says John “pretended to be living and kind” suggest about the narrator’s condition?
6. What does this quote suggest: “It is so pleasant to be out in this great room and creep around as I please.”
7. Where does the narrator think she sees the woman in the wallpaper?
8. What is suggested by the narrator’s multiple descriptions of the wallpaper?
9. Why does the narrator consider jumping out the window?
10. What does John do when he sees the narrator creeping around the room?
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