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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. In the first section, why does the protagonist’s narration suddenly end?
(a) Her husband is coming
(b) She is out of paper
(c) She has nothing else to say
(d) She falls asleep

4. Who does the narrator say is her one comfort?
(a) John
(b) Jennie
(c) The baby
(d) Mother

5. 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.
(a) Smooch
(b) Stripe
(c) Line
(d) Vine

Short Answer Questions

1. Jennie says what stains all of their clothing?

2. What does John force the narrator to do after every meal?

3. Why does the unnamed protagonist believe that she and her husband were able to rent the mansion for the summer?

4. Why can’t the figure in the pattern escape?

5. What does John promise the narrator?

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