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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. John’s reason for not taking the narrator away from the summerhouse and frightful bedroom is?
(a) Their lease is up in three weeks
(b) He believes that if she stays she’ll get better
(c) He wants to live there permanently
(d) The baby is ill and cannot travel

2. The narrator begs John to _______:
(a) Bring the baby to her
(b) Go shopping
(c) Leave
(d) Cuddle with her

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

4. What type of figure does the narrator believe she sees in the pattern?
(a) A child
(b) An infant
(c) A man
(d) A woman

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How long is John gone for toward the end of the story?

2. Who comes to the door when the narrator is creeping along the wall?

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

4. John threatens to send the narrator to whom?

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

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