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

2. What year was this story published?
(a) 1892
(b) 2001
(c) 1888
(d) 1980

3. Why does the narrator stop looking out the windows?
(a) She’s afraid she’ll jump out
(b) She sees lots of creeping women
(c) It is making her feel dizzy
(d) She doesn’t want John to see her

4. What is the narrator’s husband’s name?
(a) William
(b) Thomas
(c) John
(d) Max

5. In her fury, what does the narrator bite?
(a) The rope
(b) The bed
(c) The wallpaper
(d) The windowsill

Short Answer Questions

1. 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.

2. What does the narrator think about doing to the house “to reach the smell”?

3. Whom does the narrator want to visit?

4. In the first section, why does the protagonist’s narration suddenly end?

5. What does the narrator stop mentioning to John and Jennie?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does John threaten to send the narrator to Weir Mitchell?

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

3. Besides the ugly wallpaper pattern, what does the narrator think she sees in the wallpaper?

4. What does the narrator say “exhausts” her?

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

6. How is the narrator similar to the figure she sees in the paper?

7. How does the narrator describe the countryside?

8. 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?

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

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

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