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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. What year was this story published?
(a) 1888
(b) 1980
(c) 1892
(d) 2001
2. John thinks the narrator is getting _________ when he talks to her in the night.
(a) Worse, he’s sending her away to Weir Mitchell
(b) He does not express his opinion regarding the state of her health
(c) Better, saying that her appetite has returned and her flesh is gaining color
(d) The same, and she needs additional time to rest
3. Who does John ask to give a report about the narrator’s wellbeing?
(a) The narrator
(b) Jennie
(c) Weir Mitchell
(d) Mary
4. Where doesn’t the narrator want to go at the end of the story?
(a) To the nursery
(b) To the kitchen
(c) Home
(d) Outside
5. Who is the author of The Yellow Wallpaper?
(a) Charlotte Perkins Gilman
(b) Jane Austen
(c) Emily Bronte
(d) Barbara Kingsolver
Short Answer Questions
1. Who does the narrator want to help the woman in the wallpaper?
2. At the climax of the story, who does the narrator think that she has become?
3. What does the narrator say she watches always?
4. The narrator believes that the wallpaper has a(n) _________.
5. Why does the narrator believe that the figure in the wallpaper is inactive during the day?
Short Essay Questions
1. The narrator says that she watches the paper always. What does this increasing obsession suggest about the narrator?
2. 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?
3. Why does the narrator say John “pretended to be loving and kind”?
4. What are some indications that the narrator is, in fact, not getting better?
5. What does the woman in the wallpaper do to shake the pattern?
6. What does John call the narrator in the middle of the night? And why?
7. How has the major life event that the narrator recently endured affected her mental health?
8. What is the wallpaper’s odor a metaphor for?
9. What does the narrator’s husband and brother prescribe to her for her condition?
10. The narrator considers burning the house down to “reach the smell.” What does this say about her condition?
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