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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. Where does the narrator spend most of her time in the country house?
(a) Walking along the garden pathways
(b) The nursery
(c) The back porch
(d) The baby’s room

2. The narrator believes that the wallpaper has a(n) _________.
(a) A feeling
(b) An odor
(c) An alibi
(d) A stain

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

4. Who is the author of The Yellow Wallpaper?
(a) Barbara Kingsolver
(b) Jane Austen
(c) Charlotte Perkins Gilman
(d) Emily Bronte

5. Who carries the narrator upstairs to her room?
(a) Ronaldo
(b) The groundskeeper
(c) John
(d) Jennie

Short Answer Questions

1. The narrator follows what/whom?

2. Who faints at the end of the story?

3. What is nailed down in the narrator’s room?

4. What does the housekeeper think has made the narrator sick?

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. Why does the narrator suggest she’s not getting well because ofthe fact that her husband is a physician? What does this say about their relationship?

2. Where does the narrator think she sees the woman in the wallpaper?

3. How is the narrator’s behavior changing because of her obsession?

4. What does this quote suggest: “It is so pleasant to be out in this great room and creep around as I please.”

5. How has the major life event that the narrator recently endured affected her mental health?

6. What doesn’t the narrator mind about the nursery at first?

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

8. What does John do when he sees the narrator creeping around the room?

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

10. What is suggested by the narrator’s multiple descriptions of the wallpaper?

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