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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 does the narrator plan on helping while John is away?
(a) The woman in the wallpaper
(b) John
(c) Jennie
(d) Her infant

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

3. Why does the unnamed protagonist believe that she and her husband were able to rent the mansion for the summer?
(a) Because it is haunted
(b) They received an inheritance
(c) Because her husband needs to visit for work
(d) They were evicted from their city home

4. What does the housekeeper think has made the narrator sick?
(a) Childbirth
(b) Writing
(c) Lyme disease
(d) Reading

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) Stripe
(b) Smooch
(c) Line
(d) Vine

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the narrator’s husband’s name?

2. Fill in the blank: As she is peeling the wallpaper off, she thinks that the pattern of heads and bulbous eyes are “shrieking with _________”?

3. Why does the narrator believe that the figure in the wallpaper is inactive during the day?

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

5. What does the moonlight illuminate on the wallpaper?

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