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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 or what does think is shaking the wallpaper?
(a) The woman
(b) The yellow color
(c) The pattern
(d) The bars

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

3. John advices the narrator to not allow the what to run away with her?
(a) Her motherly love
(b) Her hunger
(c) Her fancies
(d) Gardener

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

5. Fill in the blanks respectively: I _________ at nothing, and ________most of the time.
(a) Cry, cry
(b) Laugh, laugh
(c) Cry, laugh
(d) Laugh, cry

Short Answer Questions

1. How does the narrator describe the “report” that was given?

2. The narrator gets up in the middle of the night to do what?

3. What is the illness that the narrator is suffering from?

4. Who is the author of The Yellow Wallpaper?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What does this quote suggest: “It is so pleasant to be out in this great room and creep around as I please.”

2. Why does the narrator abruptly end her narration in the first few pages?

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

4. Why does the narrator feel bad for the woman in the wallpaper?

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

6. Who is Weir Mitchell?

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

8. How does the narrator say John feels about intangible things?

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

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

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