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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 is the profession of the narrator’s husband?
(a) Writer
(b) Politician
(c) Physician
(d) Lawyer

2. Why does the narrator stop looking out the windows?
(a) She’s afraid she’ll jump out
(b) She doesn’t want John to see her
(c) She sees lots of creeping women
(d) It is making her feel dizzy

3. Who faints at the end of the story?
(a) John
(b) Weir Mitchell
(c) The narrator
(d) Jennie

4. What does the narrator say it looks like the bed has been through?
(a) Wars
(b) Centuries
(c) Many fitful children
(d) Neglectful housekeeping

5. What does Jennie not realize that the narrator has?
(a) Food
(b) A rope
(c) A knife
(d) A chain

Short Answer Questions

1. In the first section, why does the protagonist’s narration suddenly end?

2. What does John cry for to break down the door?

3. Why does the narrator believe that the figure in the wallpaper is inactive during the day?

4. What does John make the narrator drink as a cure?

5. What year was this story published?

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