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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 does the moonlight illuminate on the wallpaper?
(a) Roast beef
(b) Bars
(c) Honeycombs
(d) Knives

2. What does John promise the narrator?
(a) New books
(b) Another baby
(c) A little trip
(d) A new home

3. What is the illness that the narrator is suffering from?
(a) Post-partum depression
(b) Schizophrenia
(c) Severe loneliness
(d) Bi-polar disorder

4. 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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In the last paragraph, what does the narrator do?

2. Why can’t the door to the nursery be opened?

3. What does the narrator think that the figure in the wallpaper is trying to do?

4. When does the narrator say the wallpaper becomes clearer?

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

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