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

2. In the opening pages, what does the narrator’s husband not believe?
(a) That the baby is his
(b) How expensive the summer home is
(c) That the narrator is sick
(d) That women should be allowed to vote

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

4. In what point of view is the story written?
(a) Third, omniscient
(b) First
(c) Third, limited
(d) Second

5. The narrator follows what/whom?
(a) The wallpaper’s pattern around the room
(b) Her son around the house
(c) A horse in the field
(d) John around the gardens

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Jennie not realize that the narrator has?

2. What type of figure does the narrator believe she sees in the pattern?

3. John threatens to send the narrator to whom?

4. Who faints at the end of the story?

5. Jennie says what stains all of their clothing?

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