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

2. At the climax of the story, who does the narrator think that she has become?
(a) The woman in the wallpaper
(b) Mary
(c) John
(d) Jennie

3. 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) They were evicted from their city home
(c) They received an inheritance
(d) Because her husband needs to visit for work

4. In what point of view is the story written?
(a) Third, limited
(b) First
(c) Third, omniscient
(d) Second

5. The narrator gets up in the middle of the night to do what?
(a) Feel if the wallpaper is moving
(b) Run away
(c) Feed her baby
(d) Get a drink of water

Short Answer Questions

1. How much time passes before the narration continues after it suddenly stopped in the first section?

2. What does the housekeeper think has made the narrator sick?

3. In the opening pages, what does the narrator’s husband not believe?

4. John threatens to send the narrator to whom?

5. Who is the housekeeper?

(see the answer key)

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