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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In the last paragraph, what does the narrator do?
(a) Cry
(b) Walk over John who is in her path
(c) Leave the room and walk out into the dark night
(d) Call for help

2. Where doesn’t the narrator want to go at the end of the story?
(a) Outside
(b) To the nursery
(c) To the kitchen
(d) Home

3. What does the narrator think John is looking at when he is in the room?
(a) The bars on the window
(b) The wallpaper
(c) The nailed-down bed
(d) The view out the window

4. Why can’t the door to the nursery be opened?
(a) It is locked and there is no key
(b) It is stuck
(c) The narrator has the key and will not unlock it.
(d) The handle is broken

5. Where does the narrator spend most of her time in the country house?
(a) The baby’s room
(b) The nursery
(c) Walking along the garden pathways
(d) The back porch

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Jennie not realize that the narrator has?

2. Whose perspective is the story being told from?

3. What does the narrator increasingly like about her bedroom?

4. What does the narrator believe cultivates deceit?

5. What does the narrator say it looks like the bed has been through?

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