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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Why can’t the door to the nursery be opened?
(a) It is locked and there is no key
(b) The narrator has the key and will not unlock it.
(c) It is stuck
(d) The handle is broken

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

4. What does the narrator do while John is gone?
(a) Shreds the sheets
(b) Jumps out the window
(c) Peels the wallpaper
(d) Runs away

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. Where does the narrator spend most of her time in the country house?

4. What is the narrator’s husband’s name?

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

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