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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) Runs away
(b) Jumps out the window
(c) Shreds the sheets
(d) Peels the wallpaper

2. John’s reason for not taking the narrator away from the summerhouse and frightful bedroom is?
(a) He believes that if she stays she’ll get better
(b) The baby is ill and cannot travel
(c) He wants to live there permanently
(d) Their lease is up in three weeks

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

4. Why does the unnamed protagonist believe that she and her husband were able to rent the mansion for the summer?
(a) They were evicted from their city home
(b) Because her husband needs to visit for work
(c) Because it is haunted
(d) They received an inheritance

5. Where does the narrator’s husband take her at the beginning of the story?
(a) Fishing
(b) A country house for the summer
(c) A wellness spa in Biarritz
(d) On a carriage ride

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does the narrator say is her one comfort?

2. Why does the narrator believe that the figure in the wallpaper is inactive during the day?

3. Who is the housekeeper?

4. Where does the narrator spend most of her time in the country house?

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

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