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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Where does the narrator plan to go at nightfall, describing that it will be difficult to do?
(a) Home to her apartment in the country
(b) The nursery
(c) The garden
(d) Into the wallpaper

3. John threatens to send the narrator to whom?
(a) William Overtell
(b) Wallis Simpson
(c) Weir Mitchell
(d) Walter West

4. The protagonist is narrating her what?
(a) Letter to her physician
(b) Diary
(c) Article for a woman’s magazine
(d) Letter to her mother

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

Short Answer Questions

1. John advices the narrator to not allow the what to run away with her?

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

3. In what point of view is the story written?

4. What is the illness that the narrator is suffering from?

5. What does the narrator try - but fails – to move?

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