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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 carries the narrator upstairs to her room?
(a) Ronaldo
(b) John
(c) The groundskeeper
(d) Jennie

2. Why does the narrator stop looking out the windows?
(a) She sees lots of creeping women
(b) She doesn’t want John to see her
(c) It is making her feel dizzy
(d) She’s afraid she’ll jump out

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) The baby is ill and cannot travel
(c) He believes that if she stays she’ll get better
(d) Their lease is up in three weeks

4. How much time passes before the narration continues after it suddenly stopped in the first section?
(a) Two months
(b) One Month
(c) Three days
(d) Two weeks

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does her shoulder “just” fit?

2. What type of figure does the narrator believe she sees in the pattern?

3. How does the narrator describe the wallpaper’s smell?

4. The narrator begs John to _______:

5. What does the narrator initially want to do with a rope?

(see the answer key)

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