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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 John force the narrator to do after every meal?
(a) Drink coffee
(b) Walk through the garden
(c) Take a nap
(d) Bathe
2. John advices the narrator to not allow the what to run away with her?
(a) Her hunger
(b) Her fancies
(c) Gardener
(d) Her motherly love
3. The narrator begs John to _______:
(a) Cuddle with her
(b) Bring the baby to her
(c) Go shopping
(d) Leave
4. The narrator follows what/whom?
(a) Her son around the house
(b) A horse in the field
(c) John around the gardens
(d) The wallpaper’s pattern around the room
5. What does the narrator think John is looking at when he is in the room?
(a) The bars on the window
(b) The nailed-down bed
(c) The wallpaper
(d) The view out the window
Short Answer Questions
1. Who does the narrator want to help the woman in the wallpaper?
2. The story covers the span of what season?
3. Jennie says what stains all of their clothing?
4. How does the narrator describe the “report” that was given?
5. What does the narrator increasingly like about her bedroom?
Short Essay Questions
1. What is suggested by the narrator’s concern for her reputation?
2. What description is horrifying about the wallpaper?
3. How has the major life event that the narrator recently endured affected her mental health?
4. Why does the narrator consider jumping out the window?
5. What does John call the narrator in the middle of the night? And why?
6. Why is the narrator glad that she is in the nursery and not the baby?
7. What is the wallpaper’s odor a metaphor for?
8. Why does the narrator abruptly end her narration in the first few pages?
9. At what point does this short story hit its climax?
10. Why have the narrator and her husband rented the summer house?
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