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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. When does the narrator think the woman in the wallpaper gets out?
(a) When she is hungry
(b) During the nighttime
(c) During the daytime
(d) When she is tired

2. What does John force the narrator to do after every meal?
(a) Drink coffee
(b) Take a nap
(c) Walk through the garden
(d) Bathe

3. Where does the narrator plan to go at nightfall, describing that it will be difficult to do?
(a) The garden
(b) Into the wallpaper
(c) The nursery
(d) Home to her apartment in the country

4. What is nailed down in the narrator’s room?
(a) The reading chair
(b) The desk
(c) The rug
(d) The bed

5. What does the narrator think John is looking at when he is in the room?
(a) The view out the window
(b) The nailed-down bed
(c) The bars on the window
(d) The wallpaper

Short Answer Questions

1. Fill in the blank: As she is peeling the wallpaper off, she thinks that the pattern of heads and bulbous eyes are “shrieking with _________”?

2. Whom does the narrator want to visit?

3. Why can’t the door to the nursery be opened?

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

5. What type of figure does the narrator believe she sees in the pattern?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Why doesn’t the narrator cry in front of Jennie or John?

4. What is suggested by the narrator’s concern for her reputation?

5. Why doesn’t the narrator want to go outside near the climax of the story?

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

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

8. How has the major life event that the narrator recently endured affected her mental health?

9. How does the narrator describe the wallpaper in the middle of the story?

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

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