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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. John threatens to send the narrator to whom?
(a) Wallis Simpson
(b) Walter West
(c) Weir Mitchell
(d) William Overtell

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

3. Why can’t the door to the nursery be opened?
(a) It is stuck
(b) It is locked and there is no key
(c) The narrator has the key and will not unlock it.
(d) The handle is broken

4. Why does the narrator stop looking out the windows?
(a) She’s afraid she’ll jump out
(b) She sees lots of creeping women
(c) It is making her feel dizzy
(d) She doesn’t want John to see her

5. Where does John go toward the end of the story?
(a) To the sea
(b) To work
(c) To town
(d) To visit family

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What does John make the narrator drink as a cure?

4. What does the narrator do while John is gone?

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

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