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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where does the narrator spend most of her time in the country house?
(a) Walking along the garden pathways
(b) The nursery
(c) The baby’s room
(d) The back porch

2. Who does the narrator think she sees creeping outside her windows?
(a) Mary
(b) Jennie
(c) John
(d) The woman in the wallpaper

3. What is torn off in patches in the country house?
(a) The curtains
(b) The wallpaper
(c) The wooden floor
(d) The garden-shed roof

4. The protagonist is narrating her what?
(a) Letter to her mother
(b) Letter to her physician
(c) Diary
(d) Article for a woman’s magazine

5. When does the narrator say the wallpaper becomes clearer?
(a) In the evening
(b) In the morning
(c) In the moonlight
(d) In the afternoon

6. John thinks the narrator is getting _________ when he talks to her in the night.
(a) The same, and she needs additional time to rest
(b) He does not express his opinion regarding the state of her health
(c) Worse, he’s sending her away to Weir Mitchell
(d) Better, saying that her appetite has returned and her flesh is gaining color

7. Who does the narrator say is her one comfort?
(a) Mother
(b) The baby
(c) John
(d) Jennie

8. The story covers the span of what season?
(a) Fall
(b) Spring
(c) Summer
(d) Winter

9. 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 weeks
(b) Two years
(c) Two days
(d) Two months

10. What does the narrator stop mentioning to John and Jennie?
(a) The baby
(b) The sickness
(c) The nursery
(d) The wallpaper

11. What does John cry for to break down the door?
(a) A sledgehammer
(b) A butcher knife
(c) A fire poker
(d) An axe

12. How long is John gone for toward the end of the story?
(a) One night
(b) One month
(c) One week
(d) One hour

13. Who carries the narrator upstairs to her room?
(a) Jennie
(b) Ronaldo
(c) John
(d) The groundskeeper

14. 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.
(a) Vine
(b) Smooch
(c) Line
(d) Stripe

15. In the first section, why does the protagonist’s narration suddenly end?
(a) She is out of paper
(b) She falls asleep
(c) Her husband is coming
(d) She has nothing else to say

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the illness that the narrator is suffering from?

2. John advices the narrator to not allow the what to run away with her?

3. The narrator believes that the wallpaper has a ________.

4. What does the narrator throw down into the garden path?

5. Who does the narrator plan on helping while John is away?

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