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

2. Who is the housekeeper?
(a) Weir Mitchell
(b) John
(c) Mary, the nursemaid
(d) Jennie, John’s sister

3. John threatens to send the narrator to whom?
(a) Walter West
(b) Weir Mitchell
(c) Wallis Simpson
(d) William Overtell

4. Where doesn’t the narrator want to go at the end of the story?
(a) To the nursery
(b) To the kitchen
(c) Outside
(d) Home

5. Who does the narrator think she sees creeping outside her windows?
(a) Mary
(b) The woman in the wallpaper
(c) Jennie
(d) John

Short Answer Questions

1. What does John make the narrator drink as a cure?

2. What does the narrator try - but fails – to move?

3. What figure becomes very clear in moonlight, clearer than before: “plain as can be.”

4. Why does the unnamed protagonist believe that she and her husband were able to rent the mansion for the summer?

5. What does the narrator think is happening to the wallpaper pattern at night?

Short Essay Questions

1. In 1862, what was the standard cure for depression, specifically after a woman has had a baby?

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

3. What does John call the narrator in the middle of the night? And why?

4. How does the narrator think the “smooch” on the wall was created?

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

6. The narrator considers burning the house down to “reach the smell.” What does this say about her condition?

7. How does the narrator initially describe the wallpaper?

8. What description is horrifying about the wallpaper?

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

10. Why does the narrator seem jealous when she catches first John, and then Jennie, looking at the wallpaper?

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