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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. Whom does the narrator want to visit?

2. What does John promise the narrator?

3. Where does John go toward the end of the story?

4. The protagonist is narrating her what?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. At what point does this short story hit its climax?

2. Why does John refuse to repaper the nursery after initially agreeing?

3. The narrator believes the wallpaper has an odor. How does she describe the odor?

4. Why doesn’t the narrator want to go outside near the climax of the story?

5. How does the narrator initially explain her condition?

6. What is the “smooch” on the wall?

7. How does the narrator describe the wallpaper in the middle of the story?

8. Where does the narrator think she sees the woman in the wallpaper?

9. How does the narrator initially describe the wallpaper?

10. What description is horrifying about the wallpaper?

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

Why does the narrator remain unnamed in the story? What does this symbolize?

Essay Topic 3

Scan the text for dialogue that occurs between the narrator and John. How does the talk to her? What names does her call her? What does this suggest?

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