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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. Whose perspective is the story being told from?

2. What does John force the narrator to do after every meal?

3. Why won’t John let the narrator go on her desired visit?

4. John calls the narrator back to bed by calling her this name:

5. How much time passes before the narration continues after it suddenly stopped in the first section?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does the narrator describe the countryside?

2. What does the narrator say “exhausts” her?

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

4. What doesn’t the narrator mind about the nursery at first?

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

6. What major life event has the narrator just endured?

7. What description is horrifying about the wallpaper?

8. Who does John tell the narrator is the only person who can truly help her out of her sickness?

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

The narrator has been prescribed strict rest, which prohibits her from reading or writing. Why does she choose to do so anyway? Why does writing bring her comfort?

Essay Topic 2

Define unreliable narrator. Based on this definition: is the narrator a reliable or unreliable narrator?

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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