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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 can’t the figure in the pattern escape?
(a) The pattern would strangle her
(b) She needs the narrator to help her
(c) She doesn’t really want to escape
(d) She can’t find her way out

2. Whom does the narrator want to visit?
(a) Her dog, Jasper, at the city house
(b) Her mother and Father
(c) Her sister Jane and husband
(d) Her cousin Henry and Julia

3. Why does the narrator believe that the figure in the wallpaper is inactive during the day?
(a) She is eating
(b) She is scared
(c) She is sleeping
(d) She is distracted by the wallpaper

4. What does the narrator stop mentioning to John and Jennie?
(a) The baby
(b) The sickness
(c) The wallpaper
(d) The nursery

5. What year was this story published?
(a) 1892
(b) 1980
(c) 2001
(d) 1888

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Whose perspective is the story being told from?

3. Where does the narrator’s husband take her at the beginning of the story?

4. The narrator believes that the wallpaper has a ________.

5. The narrator believes that the wallpaper has a(n) _________.

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