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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. Who does the narrator want to help the woman in the wallpaper?
(a) John
(b) Mary
(c) Herself
(d) Jennie

2. Fill in the blank: It goes behind every piece of furniture, except the bed, a long, straight, even ________, as if it had been rubbed over and over.
(a) Vine
(b) Smooch
(c) Stripe
(d) Line

3. What does the narrator throw down into the garden path?
(a) The rope
(b) The shreds of wallpaper
(c) A knife
(d) The key to the room

4. Fill in the blank: As she is peeling the wallpaper off, she thinks that the pattern of heads and bulbous eyes are “shrieking with _________”?
(a) Anguish
(b) Derision
(c) Hysterics
(d) Laughter

5. Who does the narrator plan on helping while John is away?
(a) Jennie
(b) Her infant
(c) The woman in the wallpaper
(d) John

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the housekeeper?

2. Who comes to the door when the narrator is creeping along the wall?

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

4. The narrator follows what/whom?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How does the narrator describe the countryside?

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

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

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

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

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

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

9. Why does the narrator consider jumping out the window?

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

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