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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 John ask to give a report about the narrator’s wellbeing?
(a) Weir Mitchell
(b) Mary
(c) The narrator
(d) Jennie
2. Who does the narrator think she sees creeping outside her windows?
(a) Jennie
(b) The woman in the wallpaper
(c) Mary
(d) John
3. How much time passes before the narration continues after it suddenly stopped in the first section?
(a) Three days
(b) Two weeks
(c) Two months
(d) One Month
4. What does the narrator “securely fasten” herself with?
(a) A rope
(b) The drapery
(c) Restrictive clothing
(d) The bed sheets
5. The story covers the span of what season?
(a) Winter
(b) Summer
(c) Spring
(d) Fall
Short Answer Questions
1. What does John promise the narrator?
2. The narrator describes the wallpaper having a recurrent spot where the pattern lolls like a broken neck and _____________
3. What does the narrator say it looks like the bed has been through?
4. John advices the narrator to not allow the what to run away with her?
5. What does the narrator think is happening to the wallpaper pattern at night?
Short Essay Questions
1. How does the narrator describe the wallpaper in the middle of the story?
2. Why does the narrator say John “pretended to be loving and kind”?
3. What does what John calls the narrator in the middle of the nightsuggest about their relationship?
4. What is the wallpaper’s odor a metaphor for?
5. Why does it bother the narrator that she cannot read or write while recuperating?
6. What does the fact that the narrator says John “pretended to be living and kind” suggest about the narrator’s condition?
7. At what point does this short story hit its climax?
8. Why does the narrator think her husband was able to rent the summer house at such short notice?
9. How does the narrator say John feels about intangible things?
10. Besides the ugly wallpaper pattern, what does the narrator think she sees in the wallpaper?
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