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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In what point of view is the story written?
(a) First
(b) Third, omniscient
(c) Second
(d) Third, limited

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

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

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

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 months
(c) Two days
(d) Two years

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the narrator think that the figure in the wallpaper is trying to do?

2. What does the narrator say she watches always?

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

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

5. In the opening pages, what does the narrator’s husband not believe?

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