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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does the housekeeper think has made the narrator sick?
(a) Reading
(b) Lyme disease
(c) Childbirth
(d) Writing

3. Where doesn’t the narrator want to go at the end of the story?
(a) Outside
(b) Home
(c) To the nursery
(d) To the kitchen

4. Why does the narrator stop looking out the windows?
(a) It is making her feel dizzy
(b) She sees lots of creeping women
(c) She’s afraid she’ll jump out
(d) She doesn’t want John to see her

5. When does the narrator say the wallpaper becomes clearer?
(a) In the evening
(b) In the afternoon
(c) In the moonlight
(d) In the morning

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does the narrator believe cultivates deceit?

3. Who faints at the end of the story?

4. What does the narrator say she watches always?

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

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