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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 unnamed protagonist believe that she and her husband were able to rent the mansion for the summer?
(a) Because her husband needs to visit for work
(b) They were evicted from their city home
(c) They received an inheritance
(d) Because it is haunted

2. When does the narrator think the woman in the wallpaper gets out?
(a) When she is tired
(b) During the daytime
(c) During the nighttime
(d) When she is hungry

3. Fill in the blank: As she is peeling the wallpaper off, she thinks that the pattern of heads and bulbous eyes are “shrieking with _________”?
(a) Anguish
(b) Hysterics
(c) Laughter
(d) Derision

4. How does the narrator describe the “report” that was given?
(a) Good
(b) Fair
(c) Bad
(d) Crazy

5. Who does the narrator want to help the woman in the wallpaper?
(a) Herself
(b) Mary
(c) Jennie
(d) John

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the narrator throw down into the garden path?

2. What does John force the narrator to do after every meal?

3. What does the narrator stop mentioning to John and Jennie?

4. What does the narrator believe cultivates deceit?

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

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