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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

5. What does the moonlight illuminate on the wallpaper?
(a) Bars
(b) Roast beef
(c) Knives
(d) Honeycombs

Short Answer Questions

1. What type of figure does the narrator believe she sees in the pattern?

2. How long is John gone for toward the end of the story?

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

4. At the climax of the story, who does the narrator think that she has become?

5. What does the narrator say it looks like the bed has been through?

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