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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. How does the narrator describe the wallpaper’s smell?
(a) A black smell
(b) A sweet smell
(c) A yellow smell
(d) A sour smell
2. The narrator describes the wallpaper having a recurrent spot where the pattern lolls like a broken neck and _____________
(a) two bulbous eyes stare at you upside down
(b) it scares me
(c) an eyeless face sneers at you
(d) a scabrous mouth opens again and again, as if screaming
3. What does John promise the narrator?
(a) A little trip
(b) A new home
(c) New books
(d) Another baby
4. Which room does the narrator’s husband choose for her room?
(a) A guest apartment suite
(b) The parlor
(c) The nursery
(d) A screened-in porch
5. What is torn off in patches in the country house?
(a) The wallpaper
(b) The wooden floor
(c) The curtains
(d) The garden-shed roof
Short Answer Questions
1. What does the narrator increasingly like about her bedroom?
2. What does Jennie not realize that the narrator has?
3. The narrator gets up in the middle of the night to do what?
4. Who is the author of The Yellow Wallpaper?
5. Fill in the blanks respectively: I _________ at nothing, and ________most of the time.
Short Essay Questions
1. The narrator considers burning the house down to “reach the smell.” What does this say about her condition?
2. How does the narrator initially explain her condition?
3. What does the narrator’s husband and brother prescribe to her for her condition?
4. What does what John calls the narrator in the middle of the nightsuggest about their relationship?
5. Where does the narrator think she sees the woman in the wallpaper?
6. What does the woman in the wallpaper do to shake the pattern?
7. What does John do when he sees the narrator creeping around the room?
8. What does the fact that the narrator says John “pretended to be living and kind” suggest about the narrator’s condition?
9. What are some indications that the narrator is, in fact, not getting better?
10. How does the narrator describe the wallpaper in the middle of the story?
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