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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 follows what/whom?
(a) A horse in the field
(b) The wallpaper’s pattern around the room
(c) Her son around the house
(d) John around the gardens

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

3. Why does the unnamed protagonist believe that she and her husband were able to rent the mansion for the summer?
(a) They were evicted from their city home
(b) Because it is haunted
(c) They received an inheritance
(d) Because her husband needs to visit for work

4. John thinks the narrator is getting _________ when he talks to her in the night.
(a) The same, and she needs additional time to rest
(b) Better, saying that her appetite has returned and her flesh is gaining color
(c) Worse, he’s sending her away to Weir Mitchell
(d) He does not express his opinion regarding the state of her health

5. What does the narrator believe cultivates deceit?
(a) Writing in her journal
(b) Lying awake during the sanctioned naptimes
(c) Eating sweets when no one is looking
(d) Watching the wallpaper

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Whose perspective is the story being told from?

3. What does the narrator think about doing to the house “to reach the smell”?

4. How long is John gone for toward the end of the story?

5. John’s reason for not taking the narrator away from the summerhouse and frightful bedroom is?

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