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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 say she watches always?
(a) The television
(b) The baby
(c) The window
(d) The wallpaper

2. What does the narrator think that the figure in the wallpaper is trying to do?
(a) Eat dinner
(b) Escape
(c) Sleep
(d) Fight the wallpaper pattern

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

4. Why can’t the door to the nursery be opened?
(a) The handle is broken
(b) The narrator has the key and will not unlock it.
(c) It is stuck
(d) It is locked and there is no key

5. Where does her shoulder “just” fit?
(a) In the long smooch along the wall
(b) In a nook in the corner
(c) Out the window
(d) In the hole in the wall

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does the narrator think she sees creeping outside her windows?

2. What does the narrator do while John is gone?

3. What holiday passes while the family is staying at the country house?

4. John thinks the narrator is getting _________ when he talks to her in the night.

5. Jennie says what stains all of their clothing?

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