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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 think John is looking at when he is in the room?
(a) The nailed-down bed
(b) The wallpaper
(c) The view out the window
(d) The bars on the window

2. What is nailed down in the narrator’s room?
(a) The desk
(b) The reading chair
(c) The bed
(d) The rug

3. What does the narrator initially want to do with a rope?
(a) Use it to hang the woman
(b) Use it to tie up the woman if she tries to escape
(c) Use it to move the bed from the wall
(d) Use it to escape out the window

4. The story covers the span of what season?
(a) Summer
(b) Fall
(c) Spring
(d) Winter

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

Short Answer Questions

1. When does the narrator say the wallpaper becomes clearer?

2. The protagonist is narrating her what?

3. What is the profession of the narrator’s husband?

4. What does the narrator try - but fails – to move?

5. In the last paragraph, what does the narrator do?

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