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

2. What does the narrator think John is looking at when he is in the room?
(a) The wallpaper
(b) The nailed-down bed
(c) The view out the window
(d) The bars on the window

3. The protagonist is narrating her what?
(a) Diary
(b) Letter to her physician
(c) Letter to her mother
(d) Article for a woman’s magazine

4. What does the narrator increasingly like about her bedroom?
(a) The bed
(b) The desk at which she writes
(c) The view of the gardens
(d) The wallpaper

5. Why can’t the figure in the pattern escape?
(a) She needs the narrator to help her
(b) She doesn’t really want to escape
(c) The pattern would strangle her
(d) She can’t find her way out

Short Answer Questions

1. John threatens to send the narrator to whom?

2. In the opening pages, what does the narrator’s husband not believe?

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

4. The narrator gets up in the middle of the night to do what?

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

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