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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who does the narrator want to help the woman in the wallpaper?
(a) Herself
(b) Mary
(c) John
(d) Jennie

2. What year was this story published?
(a) 2001
(b) 1892
(c) 1980
(d) 1888

3. What does the narrator think that the figure in the wallpaper is trying to do?
(a) Eat dinner
(b) Escape
(c) Fight the wallpaper pattern
(d) Sleep

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

5. What is the illness that the narrator is suffering from?
(a) Post-partum depression
(b) Severe loneliness
(c) Schizophrenia
(d) Bi-polar disorder

Short Answer Questions

1. John calls the narrator back to bed by calling her this name:

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

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

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

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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