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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. In the opening pages, what does the narrator’s husband not believe?
(a) That the baby is his
(b) That women should be allowed to vote
(c) That the narrator is sick
(d) How expensive the summer home is

2. The narrator describes the wallpaper having a recurrent spot where the pattern lolls like a broken neck and _____________
(a) an eyeless face sneers at you
(b) it scares me
(c) a scabrous mouth opens again and again, as if screaming
(d) two bulbous eyes stare at you upside down

3. Who does the narrator say is her one comfort?
(a) The baby
(b) Mother
(c) John
(d) Jennie

4. The protagonist is narrating her what?
(a) Letter to her physician
(b) Article for a woman’s magazine
(c) Letter to her mother
(d) Diary

5. What does the moonlight illuminate on the wallpaper?
(a) Roast beef
(b) Honeycombs
(c) Bars
(d) Knives

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the narrator do while John is gone?

2. What does the narrator say she watches always?

3. Who does the narrator plan on helping while John is away?

4. What does the narrator increasingly like about her bedroom?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. How does the narrator describe the wallpaper in the middle of the story?

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

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

4. Who does the narrator believe she has become by the end of the story?

5. How is the narrator’s behavior changing because of her obsession?

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

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

8. 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?

9. What does John’s action after seeing his wife creeping around the room suggest about John?

10. The narrator believes the wallpaper has an odor. How does she describe the odor?

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