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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who or what does think is shaking the wallpaper?
(a) The pattern
(b) The bars
(c) The yellow color
(d) The woman

2. The narrator begs John to _______:
(a) Leave
(b) Bring the baby to her
(c) Go shopping
(d) Cuddle with her

3. In the opening pages, what does the narrator’s husband not believe?
(a) That women should be allowed to vote
(b) How expensive the summer home is
(c) That the baby is his
(d) That the narrator is sick

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

5. What does the narrator “securely fasten” herself with?
(a) The bed sheets
(b) A rope
(c) The drapery
(d) Restrictive clothing

Short Answer Questions

1. John thinks the narrator is getting _________ when he talks to her in the night.

2. Where does the narrator spend most of her time in the country house?

3. What is nailed down in the narrator’s room?

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

5. Why does the unnamed protagonist believe that she and her husband were able to rent the mansion for the summer?

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