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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The narrator believes that the wallpaper has a(n) _________.
(a) A stain
(b) An alibi
(c) A feeling
(d) An odor

2. John’s reason for not taking the narrator away from the summerhouse and frightful bedroom is?
(a) He wants to live there permanently
(b) He believes that if she stays she’ll get better
(c) Their lease is up in three weeks
(d) The baby is ill and cannot travel

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

4. Where does the narrator’s husband take her at the beginning of the story?
(a) Fishing
(b) A country house for the summer
(c) On a carriage ride
(d) A wellness spa in Biarritz

5. Who does the narrator want to help the woman in the wallpaper?
(a) John
(b) Mary
(c) Jennie
(d) Herself

Short Answer Questions

1. What figure becomes very clear in moonlight, clearer than before: “plain as can be.”

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

3. What does the narrator do while John is gone?

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

5. What does the narrator “securely fasten” herself with?

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