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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where doesn’t the narrator want to go at the end of the story?
(a) To the kitchen
(b) Home
(c) Outside
(d) To the nursery

2. What does Jennie not realize that the narrator has?
(a) A chain
(b) Food
(c) A rope
(d) A knife

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

4. In what genre would this story be categorized?
(a) A novella
(b) A personal essay
(c) A novel
(d) An article

5. What is the profession of the narrator’s husband?
(a) Lawyer
(b) Writer
(c) Politician
(d) Physician

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In what point of view is the story written?

3. What is the narrator’s husband’s name?

4. What figure becomes very clear in moonlight, clearer than before: “plain as can be.”

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

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