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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 the narrator do while John is gone?
(a) Shreds the sheets
(b) Jumps out the window
(c) Runs away
(d) Peels the wallpaper

2. What does the narrator initially want to do with a rope?
(a) Use it to move the bed from the wall
(b) Use it to tie up the woman if she tries to escape
(c) Use it to hang the woman
(d) Use it to escape out the window

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

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

5. What does the housekeeper think has made the narrator sick?
(a) Reading
(b) Lyme disease
(c) Writing
(d) Childbirth

Short Answer Questions

1. The narrator believes that the wallpaper has a(n) _________.

2. Fill in the blank: It goes behind every piece of furniture, except the bed, a long, straight, even ________, as if it had been rubbed over and over.

3. What is the profession of the narrator’s husband?

4. What does the narrator think is happening to the wallpaper pattern at night?

5. In the first section, why does the protagonist’s narration suddenly end?

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