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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who does John ask to give a report about the narrator’s wellbeing?
(a) Jennie
(b) Mary
(c) Weir Mitchell
(d) The narrator

2. Who comes to the door when the narrator is creeping along the wall?
(a) Jennie
(b) Mary
(c) Weir Mitchell
(d) John

3. John thinks the narrator is getting _________ when he talks to her in the night.
(a) Worse, he’s sending her away to Weir Mitchell
(b) Better, saying that her appetite has returned and her flesh is gaining color
(c) He does not express his opinion regarding the state of her health
(d) The same, and she needs additional time to rest

4. The narrator follows what/whom?
(a) The wallpaper’s pattern around the room
(b) Her son around the house
(c) John around the gardens
(d) A horse in the field

5. What does John make the narrator drink as a cure?
(a) Green tea
(b) Cod liver oil
(c) Water
(d) Milk

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does the narrator’s husband take her at the beginning of the story?

2. The narrator believes that the wallpaper has a(n) _________.

3. Why does the narrator stop looking out the windows?

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

5. Who carries the narrator upstairs to her room?

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