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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 is the housekeeper?
(a) Jennie, John’s sister
(b) Weir Mitchell
(c) John
(d) Mary, the nursemaid

2. Where does the narrator’s husband take her at the beginning of the story?
(a) A country house for the summer
(b) Fishing
(c) On a carriage ride
(d) A wellness spa in Biarritz

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

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

5. In what point of view is the story written?
(a) First
(b) Second
(c) Third, limited
(d) Third, omniscient

Short Answer Questions

1. What year was this story published?

2. What type of figure does the narrator believe she sees in the pattern?

3. When does the narrator think the woman in the wallpaper gets out?

4. Who or what does think is shaking the wallpaper?

5. In what genre would this story be categorized?

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