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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The narrator believes that the wallpaper has a(n) _________.
(a) A feeling
(b) An alibi
(c) A stain
(d) An odor

2. What does John cry for to break down the door?
(a) A sledgehammer
(b) A fire poker
(c) A butcher knife
(d) An axe

3. 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) Because it is haunted
(c) They received an inheritance
(d) They were evicted from their city home

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

5. What does the narrator increasingly like about her bedroom?
(a) The wallpaper
(b) The view of the gardens
(c) The desk at which she writes
(d) The bed

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does the narrator plan to go at nightfall, describing that it will be difficult to do?

2. What does Jennie not realize that the narrator has?

3. In the last paragraph, what does the narrator do?

4. What does the narrator think John is looking at when he is in the room?

5. Why won’t John let the narrator go on her desired visit?

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