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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Which room does the narrator’s husband choose for her room?
(a) The parlor
(b) A screened-in porch
(c) The nursery
(d) A guest apartment suite

3. The narrator follows what/whom?
(a) Her son around the house
(b) The wallpaper’s pattern around the room
(c) John around the gardens
(d) A horse in the field

4. The story covers the span of what season?
(a) Winter
(b) Summer
(c) Spring
(d) Fall

5. Whose perspective is the story being told from?
(a) The unnamed protagonist’s
(b) John’s
(c) Jennie’s
(d) Jane’s

Short Answer Questions

1. Fill in the blank: As she is peeling the wallpaper off, she thinks that the pattern of heads and bulbous eyes are “shrieking with _________”?

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

3. What does the housekeeper think has made the narrator sick?

4. Who does the narrator plan on helping while John is away?

5. At the climax of the story, who does the narrator think that she has become?

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