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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) The handle is broken
(b) It is stuck
(c) The narrator has the key and will not unlock it.
(d) It is locked and there is no key

2. Who does the narrator plan on helping while John is away?
(a) Jennie
(b) John
(c) The woman in the wallpaper
(d) Her infant

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

4. What does the narrator think that the figure in the wallpaper is trying to do?
(a) Fight the wallpaper pattern
(b) Eat dinner
(c) Sleep
(d) Escape

5. What does the narrator do while John is gone?
(a) Jumps out the window
(b) Shreds the sheets
(c) Peels the wallpaper
(d) Runs away

Short Answer Questions

1. The narrator describes the wallpaper having a recurrent spot where the pattern lolls like a broken neck and _____________

2. Whom does the narrator want to visit?

3. How does the narrator describe the wallpaper’s smell?

4. Who comes to the door when the narrator is creeping along the wall?

5. What year was this story published?

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