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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 is the narrator’s husband’s name?
2. John’s reason for not taking the narrator away from the summerhouse and frightful bedroom is?
3. Where does the narrator plan to go at nightfall, describing that it will be difficult to do?
4. 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.
5. What does John promise the narrator?
Short Essay Questions
1. What does John’s action after seeing his wife creeping around the room suggest about John?
2. Why have the narrator and her husband rented the summer house?
3. Why doesn’t the narrator want others to touch the wallpaper?
4. How does the narrator describe the countryside?
5. The narrator believes the wallpaper has an odor. How does she describe the odor?
6. What does what John calls the narrator in the middle of the nightsuggest about their relationship?
7. What is suggested by the narrator’s concern for her reputation?
8. How is the narrator similar to the figure she sees in the paper?
9. Why does the narrator feel bad for the woman in the wallpaper?
10. Why does the narrator abruptly end her narration in the first few pages?
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
Charlotte Perkins Gilman wrote this story in 1887, after suffering from depression. A doctor had instructed her to rest and not work, which she believed made her condition much worse. She wrote The Yellow Wallpaper as a way to speak out against the common treatment of what was then called "nervous conditions." The extreme rest therapy that John forces on the narrator gives an interesting look at the treatment of mental illness in the late 19th Century. How is postpartum depression viewed today compared to Gilman’s representation in 1887?
Essay Topic 3
Describe John’s character. Does he change? Is John a round or flat character? Static or dynamic?
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