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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. At the climax of the story, who does the narrator think that she has become?
(a) Mary
(b) The woman in the wallpaper
(c) John
(d) Jennie

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

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

4. What does the narrator initially want to do with a rope?
(a) Use it to escape out the window
(b) Use it to move the bed from the wall
(c) Use it to tie up the woman if she tries to escape
(d) Use it to hang the woman

5. What does the narrator think is happening to the wallpaper pattern at night?
(a) It is peeling itself off of the wall
(b) It is talking to her
(c) It is humming
(d) It is shaking

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Whom does the narrator want to visit?

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

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

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

(see the answer key)

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