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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 type of figure does the narrator believe she sees in the pattern?
(a) A woman
(b) A man
(c) A child
(d) An infant

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

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

4. How long is John gone for toward the end of the story?
(a) One month
(b) One night
(c) One hour
(d) One week

5. Whom does the narrator want to visit?
(a) Her cousin Henry and Julia
(b) Her mother and Father
(c) Her sister Jane and husband
(d) Her dog, Jasper, at the city house

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does the narrator want to help the woman in the wallpaper?

2. Fill in the blank: It goes behind every piece of furniture, except the bed, a long, straight, even ________, as if it had been rubbed over and over.

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

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

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

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