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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 Jennie not realize that the narrator has?
(a) A knife
(b) Food
(c) A chain
(d) A rope

2. Where does the narrator plan to go at nightfall, describing that it will be difficult to do?
(a) Into the wallpaper
(b) The garden
(c) The nursery
(d) Home to her apartment in the country

3. What year was this story published?
(a) 1980
(b) 1892
(c) 2001
(d) 1888

4. 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 women should be allowed to vote
(d) That the baby is his

5. Whom does the narrator want to visit?
(a) Her sister Jane and husband
(b) Her cousin Henry and Julia
(c) Her mother and Father
(d) Her dog, Jasper, at the city house

Short Answer Questions

1. Why won’t John let the narrator go on her desired visit?

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

3. The story covers the span of what season?

4. Fill in the blank: It goes behind every piece of furniture, except the bed, a long, straight, even ________, as if it had been rubbed over and over.

5. In her fury, what does the narrator bite?

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