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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 figure becomes very clear in moonlight, clearer than before: “plain as can be.”
(a) An infant
(b) A woman
(c) A child
(d) A man

2. 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

3. What is the illness that the narrator is suffering from?
(a) Schizophrenia
(b) Post-partum depression
(c) Bi-polar disorder
(d) Severe loneliness

4. John thinks the narrator is getting _________ when he talks to her in the night.
(a) The same, and she needs additional time to rest
(b) Worse, he’s sending her away to Weir Mitchell
(c) He does not express his opinion regarding the state of her health
(d) Better, saying that her appetite has returned and her flesh is gaining color

5. Whom does the narrator want to visit?
(a) Her mother and Father
(b) Her cousin Henry and Julia
(c) Her dog, Jasper, at the city house
(d) Her sister Jane and husband

Short Answer Questions

1. When does the narrator say the wallpaper becomes clearer?

2. When the narrator makes the plan to get off the wallpaper before John notices, how long do they have left at the house?

3. Where does her shoulder “just” fit?

4. What does the narrator believe cultivates deceit?

5. Why does the unnamed protagonist believe that she and her husband were able to rent the mansion for the summer?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why is the narrator glad that she is in the nursery and not the baby?

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

3. Why does the narrator seem jealous when she catches first John, and then Jennie, looking at the wallpaper?

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

5. Who is Weir Mitchell?

6. Why does John threaten to send the narrator to Weir Mitchell?

7. At what point does this short story hit its climax?

8. How does the narrator feel about her husband and brother’s prescriptions?

9. Why have the narrator and her husband rented the summer house?

10. The narrator briefly considers jumping out the window. Why does she decide against it?

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