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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 the narrator try - but fails – to move?
(a) The lamp
(b) The chair
(c) The bed
(d) The desk

2. What type of figure does the narrator believe she sees in the pattern?
(a) A child
(b) A woman
(c) A man
(d) An infant

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

4. When the narrator makes the plan to get off the wallpaper before John notices, how long do they have left at the house?
(a) Two weeks
(b) Two years
(c) Two days
(d) Two months

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. The story covers the span of what season?

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

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

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