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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. In the first section, why does the protagonist’s narration suddenly end?

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

3. What does the narrator increasingly like about her bedroom?

4. The protagonist is narrating her what?

5. How does the narrator describe the wallpaper’s smell?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does the narrator’s husband and brother prescribe to her for her condition?

2. Besides the ugly wallpaper pattern, what does the narrator think she sees in the wallpaper?

3. What is suggested by the narrator’s multiple descriptions of the wallpaper?

4. Who is Weir Mitchell?

5. How does the narrator initially describe the wallpaper?

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

7. What is the “smooch” on the wall?

8. Why is the narrator afraid of being sent to Weir Mitchell?

9. 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?

10. What does what John calls the narrator in the middle of the nightsuggest about their relationship?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Describe John’s character. Does he change? Is John a round or flat character? Static or dynamic?

Essay Topic 2

How does the narrator’s perception of her husband change? What is the evidence of this within the text?

Essay Topic 3

The narrator states that she will not jump out of the window lest it be misconstrued. Why is she more concerned about her reputation rather than the fact that if she jumped out the window she would be severely injured or killed? What does this suggest?

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