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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. What does the narrator think that the figure in the wallpaper is trying to do?
2. What figure becomes very clear in moonlight, clearer than before: “plain as can be.”
3. Who carries the narrator upstairs to her room?
4. Fill in the blank: As she is peeling the wallpaper off, she thinks that the pattern of heads and bulbous eyes are “shrieking with _________”?
5. 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.
Short Essay Questions
1. Why does the narrator consider jumping out the window?
2. What does the narrator’s husband and brother prescribe to her for her condition?
3. What does this quote suggest: “It is so pleasant to be out in this great room and creep around as I please.”
4. How does the narrator initially explain her condition?
5. What does the woman in the wallpaper do to shake the pattern?
6. Why does the narrator feel bad for the woman in the wallpaper?
7. What is the wallpaper’s odor a metaphor for?
8. Besides the ugly wallpaper pattern, what does the narrator think she sees in the wallpaper?
9. What are some indications that the narrator is, in fact, not getting better?
10. What does John’s action after seeing his wife creeping around the room suggest about John?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
One moment the narrator says she likes the nursery and is glad for it, and the next moment she wishes that John would take her away. What do the inconsistencies suggest?
Essay Topic 2
A rest-cure was often prescribed for a variety of mental illnesses in the 1800’s. Why does the narrator believe that something to keep her mind busy is actually better for her than following her husband’s prescription when he is a physician?
Essay Topic 3
John faints when he sees the narrator creeping along the wall in the last scene of the story. His fainting suggests that the narrator has done well in keeping the severity of her illness a secret. Has she done a good job of keeping her illness a secret? Find evidence that supports this. OR, does her husband just not pay that much attention to her? Find evidence to support this.
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