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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why can’t the door to the nursery be opened?
(a) It is stuck
(b) The narrator has the key and will not unlock it.
(c) It is locked and there is no key
(d) The handle is broken

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 escape out the window
(c) Use it to tie up the woman if she tries to escape
(d) Use it to hang the woman

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

4. What does the narrator think about doing to the house “to reach the smell”?
(a) Re-furnishing the house
(b) Burn the house down
(c) Re-paint the house
(d) Wash all of the surfaces with ammonia

5. Why does the narrator stop looking out the windows?
(a) She’s afraid she’ll jump out
(b) She sees lots of creeping women
(c) It is making her feel dizzy
(d) She doesn’t want John to see her

Short Answer Questions

1. In her fury, what does the narrator bite?

2. In the last paragraph, what does the narrator do?

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

4. John thinks the narrator is getting _________ when he talks to her in the night.

5. Why won’t John let the narrator go on her desired visit?

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