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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Yellow Wallpaper.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where does the narrator plan to go at nightfall, describing that it will be difficult to do?
(a) The nursery
(b) The garden
(c) Home to her apartment in the country
(d) Into the wallpaper

2. What type of figure does the narrator believe she sees in the pattern?
(a) A woman
(b) A man
(c) An infant
(d) A child

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the narrator stop mentioning to John and Jennie?

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

3. In the opening pages, what does the narrator’s husband not believe?

4. Whom does the narrator want to visit?

5. John thinks the narrator is getting _________ when he talks to her in the night.

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