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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where does her shoulder “just” fit?
(a) In a nook in the corner
(b) Out the window
(c) In the long smooch along the wall
(d) In the hole in the wall

2. Why does the narrator believe that the figure in the wallpaper is inactive during the day?
(a) She is eating
(b) She is scared
(c) She is sleeping
(d) She is distracted by the wallpaper

3. What does the narrator think John is looking at when he is in the room?
(a) The wallpaper
(b) The view out the window
(c) The bars on the window
(d) The nailed-down bed

4. John threatens to send the narrator to whom?
(a) William Overtell
(b) Wallis Simpson
(c) Weir Mitchell
(d) Walter West

5. Who does the narrator plan on helping while John is away?
(a) Jennie
(b) Her infant
(c) John
(d) The woman in the wallpaper

6. When the narrator makes the plan to get off the wallpaper before John notices, how long do they have left at the house?
(a) Two months
(b) Two years
(c) Two days
(d) Two weeks

7. What is the illness that the narrator is suffering from?
(a) Schizophrenia
(b) Severe loneliness
(c) Post-partum depression
(d) Bi-polar disorder

8. What does Jennie not realize that the narrator has?
(a) A rope
(b) A chain
(c) Food
(d) A knife

9. What does the narrator do while John is gone?
(a) Shreds the sheets
(b) Peels the wallpaper
(c) Runs away
(d) Jumps out the window

10. Who does the narrator become afraid of?
(a) The baby
(b) Mother
(c) Jennie
(d) John

11. Who comes to the door when the narrator is creeping along the wall?
(a) Weir Mitchell
(b) Jennie
(c) John
(d) Mary

12. In the opening pages, what does the narrator’s husband not believe?
(a) How expensive the summer home is
(b) That the narrator is sick
(c) That the baby is his
(d) That women should be allowed to vote

13. What does the narrator “securely fasten” herself with?
(a) A rope
(b) The drapery
(c) Restrictive clothing
(d) The bed sheets

14. The narrator describes the wallpaper having a recurrent spot where the pattern lolls like a broken neck and _____________
(a) a scabrous mouth opens again and again, as if screaming
(b) it scares me
(c) two bulbous eyes stare at you upside down
(d) an eyeless face sneers at you

15. What year was this story published?
(a) 2001
(b) 1892
(c) 1888
(d) 1980

Short Answer Questions

1. The protagonist is narrating her what?

2. What type of figure does the narrator believe she sees in the pattern?

3. Who carries the narrator upstairs to her room?

4. How does the narrator describe the wallpaper’s smell?

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.

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