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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 stop mentioning to John and Jennie?
(a) The sickness
(b) The baby
(c) The wallpaper
(d) The nursery

2. What is the illness that the narrator is suffering from?
(a) Bi-polar disorder
(b) Severe loneliness
(c) Post-partum depression
(d) Schizophrenia

3. Who does John ask to give a report about the narrator’s wellbeing?
(a) Weir Mitchell
(b) The narrator
(c) Mary
(d) Jennie

4. What does the narrator think John is looking at when he is in the room?
(a) The bars on the window
(b) The nailed-down bed
(c) The view out the window
(d) The wallpaper

5. John thinks the narrator is getting _________ when he talks to her in the night.
(a) He does not express his opinion regarding the state of her health
(b) Better, saying that her appetite has returned and her flesh is gaining color
(c) Worse, he’s sending her away to Weir Mitchell
(d) The same, and she needs additional time to rest

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the author of The Yellow Wallpaper?

2. What does the narrator think is happening to the wallpaper pattern at night?

3. Who does the narrator plan on helping while John is away?

4. Why can’t the door to the nursery be opened?

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

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