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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 can’t the door to the nursery be opened?
(a) The handle is broken
(b) It is locked and there is no key
(c) The narrator has the key and will not unlock it.
(d) It is stuck

2. Who does the narrator plan on helping while John is away?
(a) John
(b) The woman in the wallpaper
(c) Jennie
(d) Her infant

3. What is nailed down in the narrator’s room?
(a) The desk
(b) The bed
(c) The rug
(d) The reading chair

4. What does the narrator throw down into the garden path?
(a) The shreds of wallpaper
(b) The key to the room
(c) A knife
(d) The rope

5. Where doesn’t the narrator want to go at the end of the story?
(a) To the kitchen
(b) Home
(c) To the nursery
(d) Outside

Short Answer Questions

1. Whose perspective is the story being told from?

2. How does the narrator describe the wallpaper’s smell?

3. What does the narrator think about doing to the house “to reach the smell”?

4. Why can’t the figure in the pattern escape?

5. What does the narrator believe cultivates deceit?

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