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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What holiday passes while the family is staying at the country house?
(a) Fourth of July
(b) Easter
(c) New Year’s Eve
(d) Thanksgiving

2. What does the narrator “securely fasten” herself with?
(a) A rope
(b) Restrictive clothing
(c) The drapery
(d) The bed sheets

3. Whose perspective is the story being told from?
(a) Jane’s
(b) John’s
(c) Jennie’s
(d) The unnamed protagonist’s

4. The protagonist is narrating her what?
(a) Diary
(b) Letter to her mother
(c) Letter to her physician
(d) Article for a woman’s magazine

5. Which room does the narrator’s husband choose for her room?
(a) A screened-in porch
(b) The parlor
(c) The nursery
(d) A guest apartment suite

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the narrator try - but fails – to move?

2. Fill in the blanks respectively: I _________ at nothing, and ________most of the time.

3. What does the narrator think that the figure in the wallpaper is trying to do?

4. How does the narrator describe the “report” that was given?

5. When the narrator makes the plan to get off the wallpaper before John notices, how long do they have left at the house?

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