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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who comes to the door when the narrator is creeping along the wall?
(a) John
(b) Weir Mitchell
(c) Jennie
(d) Mary

2. Who faints at the end of the story?
(a) Jennie
(b) Weir Mitchell
(c) The narrator
(d) John

3. 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

4. What does John force the narrator to do after every meal?
(a) Walk through the garden
(b) Bathe
(c) Drink coffee
(d) Take a nap

5. Fill in the blank: It goes behind every piece of furniture, except the bed, a long, straight, even ________, as if it had been rubbed over and over.
(a) Smooch
(b) Line
(c) Stripe
(d) Vine

Short Answer Questions

1. Who or what does think is shaking the wallpaper?

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

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

4. Fill in the blank: The narrator is so angry at the climax of the story that she wants to ___________.

5. What is the profession of the narrator’s husband?

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