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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 say she watches always?
(a) The wallpaper
(b) The baby
(c) The window
(d) The television
2. What year was this story published?
(a) 1888
(b) 1980
(c) 2001
(d) 1892
3. What does John force the narrator to do after every meal?
(a) Take a nap
(b) Walk through the garden
(c) Bathe
(d) Drink coffee
4. The protagonist is narrating her what?
(a) Article for a woman’s magazine
(b) Diary
(c) Letter to her physician
(d) Letter to her mother
5. What does the narrator think is happening to the wallpaper pattern at night?
(a) It is shaking
(b) It is talking to her
(c) It is peeling itself off of the wall
(d) It is humming
Short Answer Questions
1. Why can’t the figure in the pattern escape?
2. What does the narrator believe cultivates deceit?
3. The narrator believes that the wallpaper has a ________.
4. John advices the narrator to not allow the what to run away with her?
5. Why does the narrator stop looking out the windows?
Short Essay Questions
1. 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?
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. What is the wallpaper’s odor a metaphor for?
5. Why doesn’t the narrator want to go outside near the climax of the story?
6. Where does the narrator think she sees the woman in the wallpaper?
7. What does John’s action after seeing his wife creeping around the room suggest about John?
8. Why does the narrator think her husband was able to rent the summer house at such short notice?
9. The narrator briefly considers jumping out the window. Why does she decide against it?
10. The narrator says that she watches the paper always. What does this increasing obsession suggest about the narrator?
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