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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 John go toward the end of the story?
2. What does the narrator say she watches always?
3. Who does the narrator think she sees creeping outside her windows?
4. At the climax of the story, who does the narrator think that she has become?
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. How is the narrator similar to the figure she sees in the paper?
2. Why is the narrator afraid of being sent to Weir Mitchell?
3. Why does the narrator consider jumping out the window?
4. Why does the narrator seem jealous when she catches first John, and then Jennie, looking at the wallpaper?
5. Why does it bother the narrator that she cannot read or write while recuperating?
6. What does John call the narrator in the middle of the night? And why?
7. What major life event has the narrator just endured?
8. Why does the narrator abruptly end her narration in the first few pages?
9. What does this quote suggest: “It is so pleasant to be out in this great room and creep around as I please.”
10. What doesn’t the narrator mind about the nursery at first?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
How does the narrator’s perception of her husband change? What is the evidence of this within the text?
Essay Topic 2
The narrator describes John as “practical in the extreme” in the opening pages—how is this demonstrated throughout the story?
Essay Topic 3
Throughout the story the narrator becomes increasingly interested by the perceived woman in the wallpaper. How is the narrator symbolically similar to the woman she describes in the wallpaper?
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