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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 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) She sees lots of creeping women
(d) It is making her feel dizzy

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

3. Which room does the narrator’s husband choose for her room?
(a) The parlor
(b) A screened-in porch
(c) The nursery
(d) A guest apartment suite

4. Who is the author of The Yellow Wallpaper?
(a) Barbara Kingsolver
(b) Jane Austen
(c) Emily Bronte
(d) Charlotte Perkins Gilman

5. In the opening pages, what does the narrator’s husband not believe?
(a) That the baby is his
(b) That the narrator is sick
(c) How expensive the summer home is
(d) That women should be allowed to vote

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does the narrator become afraid of?

2. What does Jennie not realize that the narrator has?

3. Who faints at the end of the story?

4. Where does John go toward the end of the story?

5. What does the narrator stop mentioning to John and Jennie?

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