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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) 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

2. What does the housekeeper think has made the narrator sick?
(a) Reading
(b) Lyme disease
(c) Writing
(d) Childbirth

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

4. Who does the narrator become afraid of?
(a) Mother
(b) The baby
(c) John
(d) Jennie

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the narrator say she watches always?

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

3. What does the moonlight illuminate on the wallpaper?

4. What does the narrator stop mentioning to John and Jennie?

5. How much time passes before the narration continues after it suddenly stopped in the first section?

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