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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 does the narrator believe cultivates deceit?
(a) Eating sweets when no one is looking
(b) Lying awake during the sanctioned naptimes
(c) Writing in her journal
(d) Watching the wallpaper

2. In the opening pages, what does the narrator’s husband not believe?
(a) That women should be allowed to vote
(b) That the narrator is sick
(c) That the baby is his
(d) How expensive the summer home is

3. In her fury, what does the narrator bite?
(a) The bed
(b) The rope
(c) The wallpaper
(d) The windowsill

4. In the first section, why does the protagonist’s narration suddenly end?
(a) She is out of paper
(b) Her husband is coming
(c) She falls asleep
(d) She has nothing else to say

5. The narrator believes that the wallpaper has a(n) _________.
(a) An alibi
(b) An odor
(c) A stain
(d) A feeling

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the narrator think John is looking at when he is in the room?

2. Who is the author of The Yellow Wallpaper?

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

4. The story covers the span of what season?

5. When the narrator makes the plan to get off the wallpaper before John notices, how long do they have left at the house?

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