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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. Whom does the narrator want to visit?
(a) Her mother and Father
(b) Her sister Jane and husband
(c) Her dog, Jasper, at the city house
(d) Her cousin Henry and Julia

2. In what point of view is the story written?
(a) Third, omniscient
(b) Third, limited
(c) Second
(d) First

3. What does John make the narrator drink as a cure?
(a) Green tea
(b) Cod liver oil
(c) Water
(d) Milk

4. What does the narrator say it looks like the bed has been through?
(a) Many fitful children
(b) Wars
(c) Centuries
(d) Neglectful housekeeping

5. Where does the narrator plan to go at nightfall, describing that it will be difficult to do?
(a) The nursery
(b) Into the wallpaper
(c) The garden
(d) Home to her apartment in the country

Short Answer Questions

1. Fill in the blank: As she is peeling the wallpaper off, she thinks that the pattern of heads and bulbous eyes are “shrieking with _________”?

2. In the opening pages, what does the narrator’s husband not believe?

3. How does the narrator describe the wallpaper’s smell?

4. Who does John ask to give a report about the narrator’s wellbeing?

5. What holiday passes while the family is staying at the country house?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does the woman in the wallpaper do to shake the pattern?

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

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

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

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

6. What major life event has the narrator just endured?

7. The narrator says that she watches the paper always. What does this increasing obsession suggest about the narrator?

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

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

10. Why doesn’t the narrator cry in front of Jennie or John?

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