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

2. What does the narrator believe cultivates deceit?
(a) Writing in her journal
(b) Watching the wallpaper
(c) Eating sweets when no one is looking
(d) Lying awake during the sanctioned naptimes

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

4. In her fury, what does the narrator bite?
(a) The windowsill
(b) The wallpaper
(c) The rope
(d) The bed

5. Jennie says what stains all of their clothing?
(a) Infant formula
(b) Wine
(c) Flower pollen
(d) The wallpaper

Short Answer Questions

1. Whom does the narrator want to visit?

2. Who carries the narrator upstairs to her room?

3. Where doesn’t the narrator want to go at the end of the story?

4. Who does the narrator want to help the woman in the wallpaper?

5. Which room does the narrator’s husband choose for her room?

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