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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. The narrator believes that the wallpaper has a ________.
(a) Secret message
(b) Sub-design
(c) Present for her
(d) Beautiful pattern

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. In her fury, what does the narrator bite?
(a) The rope
(b) The windowsill
(c) The bed
(d) The wallpaper

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

5. Why does the unnamed protagonist believe that she and her husband were able to rent the mansion for the summer?
(a) They received an inheritance
(b) Because it is haunted
(c) Because her husband needs to visit for work
(d) They were evicted from their city home

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the narrator say she watches always?

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

3. Who does the narrator become afraid of?

4. The protagonist is narrating her what?

5. In the last paragraph, what does the narrator do?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What is the wallpaper’s odor a metaphor for?

3. How does the narrator initially explain her condition?

4. Why does the narrator abruptly end her narration in the first few pages?

5. What does the fact that the narrator says John “pretended to be living and kind” suggest about the narrator’s condition?

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

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

8. Why does John refuse to repaper the nursery after initially agreeing?

9. Who does the narrator want to help save the woman in the wallpaper?

10. Why does John threaten to send the narrator to Weir Mitchell?

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