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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) Physician
(b) Politician
(c) Lawyer
(d) Writer

2. Why does the unnamed protagonist believe that she and her husband were able to rent the mansion for the summer?
(a) They received an inheritance
(b) Because her husband needs to visit for work
(c) They were evicted from their city home
(d) Because it is haunted

3. How much time passes before the narration continues after it suddenly stopped in the first section?
(a) One Month
(b) Three days
(c) Two weeks
(d) Two months

4. Why can’t the figure in the pattern escape?
(a) She needs the narrator to help her
(b) She doesn’t really want to escape
(c) The pattern would strangle her
(d) She can’t find her way out

5. What does the narrator initially want to do with a rope?
(a) Use it to tie up the woman if she tries to escape
(b) Use it to hang the woman
(c) Use it to move the bed from the wall
(d) Use it to escape out the window

Short Answer Questions

1. Where doesn’t the narrator want to go at the end of the story?

2. Where does the narrator’s husband take her at the beginning of the story?

3. When the narrator makes the plan to get off the wallpaper before John notices, how long do they have left at the house?

4. What figure becomes very clear in moonlight, clearer than before: “plain as can be.”

5. What does the narrator increasingly like about her bedroom?

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