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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 figure becomes very clear in moonlight, clearer than before: “plain as can be.”
(a) A woman
(b) A child
(c) An infant
(d) A man

2. Why won’t John let the narrator go on her desired visit?
(a) He believes it isn’t necessary
(b) He doesn’t think it will be good if she leaves the baby
(c) He believes that she hasn’t the strength
(d) It is too costly to travel

3. Whose perspective is the story being told from?
(a) John’s
(b) Jennie’s
(c) Jane’s
(d) The unnamed protagonist’s

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

5. Where does the narrator plan to go at nightfall, describing that it will be difficult to do?
(a) Into the wallpaper
(b) Home to her apartment in the country
(c) The nursery
(d) The garden

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does the narrator throw down into the garden path?

3. John advices the narrator to not allow the what to run away with her?

4. What does the narrator think about doing to the house “to reach the smell”?

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

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