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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. Who comes to the door when the narrator is creeping along the wall?

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

3. Who does John ask to give a report about the narrator’s wellbeing?

4. What does the moonlight illuminate on the wallpaper?

5. What holiday passes while the family is staying at the country house?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What are some indications that the narrator is, in fact, not getting better?

3. Why does the narrator consider jumping out the window?

4. What is suggested by the narrator’s multiple descriptions of the wallpaper?

5. What doesn’t the narrator mind about the nursery at first?

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

7. Besides the ugly wallpaper pattern, what does the narrator think she sees in the wallpaper?

8. What is the wallpaper’s odor a metaphor for?

9. How has the major life event that the narrator recently endured affected her mental health?

10. What does the woman in the wallpaper do to shake the pattern?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Scan the text for dialogue that occurs between the narrator and John. How does the talk to her? What names does her call her? What does this suggest?

Essay Topic 2

Throughout the story the narrator becomes increasingly interested by the perceived woman in the wallpaper. How is the narrator symbolically similar to the woman she describes in the wallpaper?

Essay Topic 3

“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?

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