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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 does the narrator spend most of her time in the country house?
(a) Walking along the garden pathways
(b) The baby’s room
(c) The nursery
(d) The back porch

2. What does John promise the narrator?
(a) A new home
(b) A little trip
(c) Another baby
(d) New books

3. Jennie says what stains all of their clothing?
(a) Flower pollen
(b) The wallpaper
(c) Infant formula
(d) Wine

4. Where does her shoulder “just” fit?
(a) In the hole in the wall
(b) Out the window
(c) In a nook in the corner
(d) In the long smooch along the wall

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does the narrator want to help the woman in the wallpaper?

2. What is torn off in patches in the country house?

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

4. What does John force the narrator to do after every meal?

5. Where does the narrator plan to go at nightfall, describing that it will be difficult to do?

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