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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 increasingly like about her bedroom?
(a) The wallpaper
(b) The view of the gardens
(c) The bed
(d) The desk at which she writes

2. Where does the narrator’s husband take her at the beginning of the story?
(a) A country house for the summer
(b) A wellness spa in Biarritz
(c) Fishing
(d) On a carriage ride

3. Where does John go toward the end of the story?
(a) To the sea
(b) To work
(c) To visit family
(d) To town

4. Why can’t the figure in the pattern escape?
(a) She needs the narrator to help her
(b) She can’t find her way out
(c) She doesn’t really want to escape
(d) The pattern would strangle her

5. What is the profession of the narrator’s husband?
(a) Politician
(b) Physician
(c) Writer
(d) Lawyer

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Why does the narrator stop looking out the windows?

3. John threatens to send the narrator to whom?

4. Why does the narrator believe that the figure in the wallpaper is inactive during the day?

5. How long is John gone for toward the end of the story?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why doesn’t the narrator want others to touch the wallpaper?

2. Why does the narrator say John “pretended to be loving and kind”?

3. Why doesn’t the narrator want to go outside near the climax of the story?

4. 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?

5. What are some indications that the narrator is, in fact, not getting better?

6. Why does it bother the narrator that she cannot read or write while recuperating?

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

8. Why is the narrator afraid of being sent to Weir Mitchell?

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

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

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