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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 think that the figure in the wallpaper is trying to do?
(a) Eat dinner
(b) Sleep
(c) Fight the wallpaper pattern
(d) Escape

2. In the opening pages, what does the narrator’s husband not believe?
(a) That the baby is his
(b) That the narrator is sick
(c) That women should be allowed to vote
(d) How expensive the summer home is

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

4. In what point of view is the story written?
(a) Second
(b) Third, omniscient
(c) Third, limited
(d) First

5. What does John make the narrator drink as a cure?
(a) Water
(b) Cod liver oil
(c) Milk
(d) Green tea

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the narrator “securely fasten” herself with?

2. In the last paragraph, what does the narrator do?

3. Why can’t the figure in the pattern escape?

4. What does Jennie not realize that the narrator has?

5. Whom does the narrator want to visit?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does the narrator feel about her husband and brother’s prescriptions?

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

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

4. What is suggested by the narrator’s concern for her reputation?

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

6. Why does the narrator think her husband was able to rent the summer house at such short notice?

7. Why does the narrator feel bad for the woman in the wallpaper?

8. In 1862, what was the standard cure for depression, specifically after a woman has had a baby?

9. Why is the narrator glad that she is in the nursery and not the baby?

10. What description is horrifying about the wallpaper?

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