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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 holiday passes while the family is staying at the country house?
(a) New Year’s Eve
(b) Easter
(c) Fourth of July
(d) Thanksgiving

2. Jennie says what stains all of their clothing?
(a) Infant formula
(b) The wallpaper
(c) Flower pollen
(d) Wine

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

4. What is nailed down in the narrator’s room?
(a) The bed
(b) The desk
(c) The reading chair
(d) The rug

5. Fill in the blank: The narrator is so angry at the climax of the story that she wants to ___________.
(a) Jump out the window
(b) Cry
(c) Sleep
(d) Kill John

Short Answer Questions

1. In the last paragraph, what does the narrator do?

2. Who carries the narrator upstairs to her room?

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

4. Why does the narrator believe that the figure in the wallpaper is inactive during the day?

5. The protagonist is narrating her what?

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