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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 about doing to the house “to reach the smell”?
(a) Burn the house down
(b) Re-furnishing the house
(c) Wash all of the surfaces with ammonia
(d) Re-paint the house

2. John threatens to send the narrator to whom?
(a) Wallis Simpson
(b) William Overtell
(c) Weir Mitchell
(d) Walter West

3. What does the narrator do while John is gone?
(a) Runs away
(b) Jumps out the window
(c) Peels the wallpaper
(d) Shreds the sheets

4. What does the narrator try - but fails – to move?
(a) The lamp
(b) The chair
(c) The desk
(d) The bed

5. What does the moonlight illuminate on the wallpaper?
(a) Bars
(b) Honeycombs
(c) Roast beef
(d) Knives

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does the narrator spend most of her time in the country house?

2. What does John force the narrator to do after every meal?

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. What does the narrator believe cultivates deceit?

5. Which room does the narrator’s husband choose for her room?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Who does John tell the narrator is the only person who can truly help her out of her sickness?

3. 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?

4. How does the narrator initially describe the wallpaper?

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

6. What does the narrator’s husband and brother prescribe to her for her condition?

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

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

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

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

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