30 points

What is the major similarity between the narrator's room and the wallpaper's pattern?
A. They are both dark because they do not let sunlight into the room.
B. They both have bars.
C. They are both windowless.
D. They are both messy.

Which of the following pieces of narration occurs during the climax of the story?
A. "I pulled and she shook, I shook and she pulled, and before morning we had peeled off yards of that paper. "
B. "I don't like our room a bit. I wanted one downstairs that opened on the piazza and had roses all over the window, and such pretty old-fashioned chintz hangings!"
C. "Now why should that man have fainted? But he did, and right across my path by the wall, so that I had to creep over him every time!"
D. "The faint figure behind seemed to shake the pattern, just as if she wanted to get out."

"There is a recurrent spot where the pattern lolls like a broken neck and two bulbous eyes stare at you upside down. I get positively angry with the impertinence of it and the everlastingness."

Which of the following is an antonym for impertinence in the excerpt from the story?
A. having no connection with the given matter
B. respect
C. not showing the proper manners
D. insolence; disrespect

In this story, we learn about a woman who becomes obsessed with the wallpaper in her room after having no stimulation from the outside world. This wallpaper has bars, which remind her of the room she is in. Over time, the woman comes to believe that there is another woman trapped behind this paper. She identifies with her, and in the climax, she begins to peel the wallpaper off to liberate the woman, which marks her descent into insanity.