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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. What does the narrator try - but fails – to move?
(a) The chair
(b) The lamp
(c) The desk
(d) The bed

2. What is the narrator’s husband’s name?
(a) Max
(b) Thomas
(c) John
(d) William

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

4. The narrator gets up in the middle of the night to do what?
(a) Feel if the wallpaper is moving
(b) Feed her baby
(c) Get a drink of water
(d) Run away

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does John promise the narrator?

2. The protagonist is narrating her what?

3. In her fury, what does the narrator bite?

4. What year was this story published?

5. In the last paragraph, what does the narrator do?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does the narrator seem jealous when she catches first John, and then Jennie, looking at the wallpaper?

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

3. Why does John threaten to send the narrator to Weir Mitchell?

4. Why have the narrator and her husband rented the summer house?

5. What does this quote suggest: “It is so pleasant to be out in this great room and creep around as I please.”

6. What does John call the narrator in the middle of the night? And why?

7. What’s illuminating about the conversation between John and the narrator on page 110? What is his tone with her? How does he treat her?

8. How is the narrator’s behavior changing because of her obsession?

9. Why is the narrator afraid of being sent to Weir Mitchell?

10. What does the narrator say “exhausts” her?

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