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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. Where does the narrator’s husband take her at the beginning of the story?
2. Fill in the blank: It goes behind every piece of furniture, except the bed, a long, straight, even ________, as if it had been rubbed over and over.
3. Why won’t John let the narrator go on her desired visit?
4. Who does the narrator think she sees creeping outside her windows?
5. Fill in the blank: The narrator is so angry at the climax of the story that she wants to ___________.
Short Essay Questions
1. How is the narrator’s behavior changing because of her obsession?
2. What does John do when he sees the narrator creeping around the room?
3. What is the wallpaper’s odor a metaphor for?
4. How does the narrator initially explain her condition?
5. Besides the ugly wallpaper pattern, what does the narrator think she sees in the wallpaper?
6. How has the major life event that the narrator recently endured affected her mental health?
7. Why does the narrator seem jealous when she catches first John, and then Jennie, looking at the wallpaper?
8. In 1862, what was the standard cure for depression, specifically after a woman has had a baby?
9. What is suggested by the narrator’s concern for her reputation?
10. What does the woman in the wallpaper do to shake the pattern?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Why does the narrator remain unnamed in the story? What does this symbolize?
Essay Topic 2
Often, the narrator mentions that the nursery is more like an insane asylum rather than a nursery. What physical descriptions support this idea?
Essay Topic 3
How does the narrator change throughout the story? What moments in the story are indicative of a change?
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