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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the narrator “securely fasten” herself with?
(a) A rope
(b) The bed sheets
(c) Restrictive clothing
(d) The drapery

2. Jennie says what stains all of their clothing?
(a) Wine
(b) Infant formula
(c) The wallpaper
(d) Flower pollen

3. What does the narrator think that the figure in the wallpaper is trying to do?
(a) Sleep
(b) Escape
(c) Eat dinner
(d) Fight the wallpaper pattern

4. What is the narrator’s husband’s name?
(a) Max
(b) John
(c) Thomas
(d) William

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Why won’t John let the narrator go on her desired visit?

3. What figure becomes very clear in moonlight, clearer than before: “plain as can be.”

4. Where does the narrator spend most of her time in the country house?

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

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