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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. Who faints at the end of the story?
(a) John
(b) Jennie
(c) Weir Mitchell
(d) The narrator
2. What does the narrator “securely fasten” herself with?
(a) The drapery
(b) A rope
(c) The bed sheets
(d) Restrictive clothing
3. What does John cry for to break down the door?
(a) A butcher knife
(b) An axe
(c) A sledgehammer
(d) A fire poker
4. What does the narrator think is happening to the wallpaper pattern at night?
(a) It is shaking
(b) It is talking to her
(c) It is peeling itself off of the wall
(d) It is humming
5. When does the narrator think the woman in the wallpaper gets out?
(a) When she is tired
(b) During the daytime
(c) During the nighttime
(d) When she is hungry
Short Answer Questions
1. Where does the narrator plan to go at nightfall, describing that it will be difficult to do?
2. Who is the author of The Yellow Wallpaper?
3. Why does the narrator believe that the figure in the wallpaper is inactive during the day?
4. Where does the narrator’s husband take her at the beginning of the story?
5. John’s reason for not taking the narrator away from the summerhouse and frightful bedroom is?
Short Essay Questions
1. The narrator says that she watches the paper always. What does this increasing obsession suggest about the narrator?
2. Why does the narrator feel bad for the woman in the wallpaper?
3. What does John’s action after seeing his wife creeping around the room suggest about John?
4. How has the major life event that the narrator recently endured affected her mental health?
5. Who does John tell the narrator is the only person who can truly help her out of her sickness?
6. What does what John calls the narrator in the middle of the nightsuggest about their relationship?
7. 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?
8. The narrator believes the wallpaper has an odor. How does she describe the odor?
9. What is suggested by the narrator’s concern for her reputation?
10. Why does the narrator seem jealous when she catches first John, and then Jennie, looking at the wallpaper?
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