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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. John threatens to send the narrator to whom?
(a) William Overtell
(b) Wallis Simpson
(c) Weir Mitchell
(d) Walter West
2. What does the narrator do while John is gone?
(a) Jumps out the window
(b) Peels the wallpaper
(c) Runs away
(d) Shreds the sheets
3. John’s reason for not taking the narrator away from the summerhouse and frightful bedroom is?
(a) He wants to live there permanently
(b) He believes that if she stays she’ll get better
(c) Their lease is up in three weeks
(d) The baby is ill and cannot travel
4. What is the narrator’s husband’s name?
(a) Max
(b) Thomas
(c) John
(d) William
5. What does the housekeeper think has made the narrator sick?
(a) Lyme disease
(b) Reading
(c) Writing
(d) Childbirth
Short Answer Questions
1. What does the narrator increasingly like about her bedroom?
2. Fill in the blanks respectively: I _________ at nothing, and ________most of the time.
3. Fill in the blank: As she is peeling the wallpaper off, she thinks that the pattern of heads and bulbous eyes are “shrieking with _________”?
4. Who does the narrator think she sees creeping outside her windows?
5. 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.
Short Essay Questions
1. What’s illuminating about the conversation between John and the narrator on page 110? What is his tone with her? How does he treat her?
2. How has the major life event that the narrator recently endured affected her mental health?
3. Why does the narrator consider jumping out the window?
4. Why does the narrator think her husband was able to rent the summer house at such short notice?
5. What does the narrator’s husband and brother prescribe to her for her condition?
6. What does John’s action after seeing his wife creeping around the room suggest about John?
7. Why is the narrator glad that she is in the nursery and not the baby?
8. What does what John calls the narrator in the middle of the nightsuggest about their relationship?
9. What is the “smooch” on the wall?
10. How does the narrator initially explain her condition?
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