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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 is the narrator’s husband’s name?
(a) Max
(b) John
(c) Thomas
(d) William

2. What figure becomes very clear in moonlight, clearer than before: “plain as can be.”
(a) A child
(b) A woman
(c) A man
(d) An infant

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

4. What does the narrator throw down into the garden path?
(a) The key to the room
(b) The shreds of wallpaper
(c) A knife
(d) The rope

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where doesn’t the narrator want to go at the end of the story?

2. What does the housekeeper think has made the narrator sick?

3. In what point of view is the story written?

4. Which room does the narrator’s husband choose for her room?

5. When does the narrator say the wallpaper becomes clearer?

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