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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 initially want to do with a rope?
(a) Use it to hang the woman
(b) Use it to escape out the window
(c) Use it to tie up the woman if she tries to escape
(d) Use it to move the bed from the wall

2. What does the narrator increasingly like about her bedroom?
(a) The wallpaper
(b) The bed
(c) The desk at which she writes
(d) The view of the gardens

3. How long is John gone for toward the end of the story?
(a) One hour
(b) One week
(c) One month
(d) One night

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

5. The story covers the span of what season?
(a) Summer
(b) Winter
(c) Spring
(d) Fall

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What does John cry for to break down the door?

4. The narrator believes that the wallpaper has a(n) _________.

5. Where does the narrator’s husband take her at the beginning of the story?

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