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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 John ask to give a report about the narrator’s wellbeing?
(a) Weir Mitchell
(b) Jennie
(c) The narrator
(d) Mary

2. What does the narrator try - but fails – to move?
(a) The bed
(b) The lamp
(c) The chair
(d) The desk

3. At the climax of the story, who does the narrator think that she has become?
(a) John
(b) The woman in the wallpaper
(c) Jennie
(d) Mary

4. What does the narrator say she watches always?
(a) The wallpaper
(b) The television
(c) The baby
(d) The window

5. The narrator gets up in the middle of the night to do what?
(a) Run away
(b) Get a drink of water
(c) Feed her baby
(d) Feel if the wallpaper is moving

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does the narrator believe that the figure in the wallpaper is inactive during the day?

2. Who is the author of The Yellow Wallpaper?

3. What does the narrator think that the figure in the wallpaper is trying to do?

4. The narrator believes that the wallpaper has a(n) _________.

5. Jennie says what stains all of their clothing?

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