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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 believe cultivates deceit?
2. John’s reason for not taking the narrator away from the summerhouse and frightful bedroom is?
3. What does the narrator say she watches always?
4. What holiday passes while the family is staying at the country house?
5. Where does the narrator spend most of her time in the country house?
Short Essay Questions
1. What does the narrator say “exhausts” her?
2. Why does the narrator consider jumping out the window?
3. How does the narrator describe the wallpaper in the middle of the story?
4. What does John call the narrator in the middle of the night? And why?
5. Why does the narrator suggest she’s not getting well because ofthe fact that her husband is a physician? What does this say about their relationship?
6. Why does John refuse to repaper the nursery after initially agreeing?
7. How does the narrator describe the countryside?
8. Why does the narrator abruptly end her narration in the first few pages?
9. What is the wallpaper’s odor a metaphor for?
10. Why does it bother the narrator that she cannot read or write while recuperating?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Often, the narrator mentions that the nursery is more like an insane asylum rather than a nursery. What physical descriptions support this idea?
Essay Topic 2
“I wonder if they all came out of the wallpaper as I did?” This quote appears at the end of the story. What does it suggest? What does the narrator believe has happened?
Essay Topic 3
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?
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