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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 does the narrator think about doing to the house “to reach the smell”?
(a) Re-paint the house
(b) Burn the house down
(c) Wash all of the surfaces with ammonia
(d) Re-furnishing the house

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

3. What does the narrator say it looks like the bed has been through?
(a) Neglectful housekeeping
(b) Many fitful children
(c) Wars
(d) Centuries

4. Who does the narrator plan on helping while John is away?
(a) John
(b) Her infant
(c) Jennie
(d) The woman in the wallpaper

5. What does the narrator think that the figure in the wallpaper is trying to do?
(a) Escape
(b) Sleep
(c) Eat dinner
(d) Fight the wallpaper pattern

Short Answer Questions

1. The narrator gets up in the middle of the night to do what?

2. Why can’t the door to the nursery be opened?

3. John calls the narrator back to bed by calling her this name:

4. What does the narrator do while John is gone?

5. Why does the narrator stop looking out the windows?

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