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

2. What does the narrator think is happening to the wallpaper pattern at night?
(a) It is peeling itself off of the wall
(b) It is talking to her
(c) It is shaking
(d) It is humming

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

4. Who does the narrator become afraid of?
(a) Mother
(b) The baby
(c) Jennie
(d) John

5. What does John make the narrator drink as a cure?
(a) Milk
(b) Cod liver oil
(c) Water
(d) Green tea

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the narrator throw down into the garden path?

2. Where does John go toward the end of the story?

3. The narrator describes the wallpaper having a recurrent spot where the pattern lolls like a broken neck and _____________

4. When does the narrator think the woman in the wallpaper gets out?

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

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