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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where does her shoulder “just” fit?
(a) Out the window
(b) In a nook in the corner
(c) In the long smooch along the wall
(d) In the hole in the wall

2. Why does the narrator stop looking out the windows?
(a) She sees lots of creeping women
(b) It is making her feel dizzy
(c) She doesn’t want John to see her
(d) She’s afraid she’ll jump out

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

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

5. Who comes to the door when the narrator is creeping along the wall?
(a) Weir Mitchell
(b) Mary
(c) Jennie
(d) John

Short Answer Questions

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

2. The protagonist is narrating her what?

3. In the first section, why does the protagonist’s narration suddenly end?

4. Who does the narrator become afraid of?

5. Why can’t the figure in the pattern escape?

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