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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 think John is looking at when he is in the room?
(a) The wallpaper
(b) The bars on the window
(c) The nailed-down bed
(d) The view out the window

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

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

4. What does the narrator think that the figure in the wallpaper is trying to do?
(a) Sleep
(b) Eat dinner
(c) Escape
(d) Fight the wallpaper pattern

5. 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 days
(c) Two years
(d) Two months

Short Answer Questions

1. John threatens to send the narrator to whom?

2. What holiday passes while the family is staying at the country house?

3. 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.

4. What does John promise the narrator?

5. Who carries the narrator upstairs to her room?

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