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

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) a scabrous mouth opens again and again, as if screaming
(c) an eyeless face sneers at you
(d) it scares me

3. In her fury, what does the narrator bite?
(a) The bed
(b) The windowsill
(c) The rope
(d) The wallpaper

4. What does the narrator say she watches always?
(a) The wallpaper
(b) The television
(c) The window
(d) The baby

5. Fill in the blank: As she is peeling the wallpaper off, she thinks that the pattern of heads and bulbous eyes are “shrieking with _________”?
(a) Laughter
(b) Derision
(c) Anguish
(d) Hysterics

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does her shoulder “just” fit?

2. What is torn off in patches in the country house?

3. John’s reason for not taking the narrator away from the summerhouse and frightful bedroom is?

4. What does the moonlight illuminate on the wallpaper?

5. At the climax of the story, who does the narrator think that she has become?

Short Essay Questions

1. What description is horrifying about the wallpaper?

2. What doesn’t the narrator mind about the nursery at first?

3. Who is Weir Mitchell?

4. 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?

5. Why does the narrator say John “pretended to be loving and kind”?

6. Where does the narrator think she sees the woman in the wallpaper?

7. How does the narrator describe the countryside?

8. What is the “smooch” on the wall?

9. Why does John refuse to repaper the nursery after initially agreeing?

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

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