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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 faints at the end of the story?
(a) Jennie
(b) Weir Mitchell
(c) John
(d) The narrator

2. In what point of view is the story written?
(a) Second
(b) Third, omniscient
(c) Third, limited
(d) First

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

4. The narrator describes the wallpaper having a recurrent spot where the pattern lolls like a broken neck and _____________
(a) it scares me
(b) a scabrous mouth opens again and again, as if screaming
(c) an eyeless face sneers at you
(d) two bulbous eyes stare at you upside down

5. 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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. At the climax of the story, who does the narrator think that she has become?

3. What does the narrator “securely fasten” herself with?

4. What does John make the narrator drink as a cure?

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

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