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

2. How long is John gone for toward the end of the story?
(a) One month
(b) One night
(c) One week
(d) One hour

3. Who carries the narrator upstairs to her room?
(a) John
(b) The groundskeeper
(c) Ronaldo
(d) Jennie

4. Whom does the narrator want to visit?
(a) Her sister Jane and husband
(b) Her dog, Jasper, at the city house
(c) Her cousin Henry and Julia
(d) Her mother and Father

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. The narrator believes that the wallpaper has a ________.

3. Why can’t the figure in the pattern escape?

4. Who is the author of The Yellow Wallpaper?

5. Where does the narrator’s husband take her at the beginning of the story?

(see the answer key)

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