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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why won’t John let the narrator go on her desired visit?
(a) He doesn’t think it will be good if she leaves the baby
(b) It is too costly to travel
(c) He believes that she hasn’t the strength
(d) He believes it isn’t necessary

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

3. In the first section, why does the protagonist’s narration suddenly end?
(a) She has nothing else to say
(b) She is out of paper
(c) Her husband is coming
(d) She falls asleep

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

5. The protagonist is narrating her what?
(a) Diary
(b) Letter to her mother
(c) Article for a woman’s magazine
(d) Letter to her physician

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the narrator say she watches always?

2. The narrator gets up in the middle of the night to do what?

3. What does John force the narrator to do after every meal?

4. John thinks the narrator is getting _________ when he talks to her in the night.

5. What does the narrator believe cultivates deceit?

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