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

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

3. What does the narrator initially want to do with a rope?
(a) Use it to tie up the woman if she tries to escape
(b) Use it to move the bed from the wall
(c) Use it to hang the woman
(d) Use it to escape out the window

4. Where does her shoulder “just” fit?
(a) In the hole in the wall
(b) In a nook in the corner
(c) Out the window
(d) In the long smooch along the wall

5. John advices the narrator to not allow the what to run away with her?
(a) Gardener
(b) Her hunger
(c) Her fancies
(d) Her motherly love

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the housekeeper think has made the narrator sick?

2. When does the narrator think the woman in the wallpaper gets out?

3. How long is John gone for toward the end of the story?

4. In the first section, why does the protagonist’s narration suddenly end?

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

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