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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 type of figure does the narrator believe she sees in the pattern?
(a) An infant
(b) A man
(c) A woman
(d) A child

2. How much time passes before the narration continues after it suddenly stopped in the first section?
(a) Two months
(b) Two weeks
(c) Three days
(d) One Month

3. In the last paragraph, what does the narrator do?
(a) Call for help
(b) Walk over John who is in her path
(c) Cry
(d) Leave the room and walk out into the dark night

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

5. Who or what does think is shaking the wallpaper?
(a) The yellow color
(b) The pattern
(c) The bars
(d) The woman

Short Answer Questions

1. What does John promise the narrator?

2. Where does the narrator plan to go at nightfall, describing that it will be difficult to do?

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

4. Why does the unnamed protagonist believe that she and her husband were able to rent the mansion for the summer?

5. Where does her shoulder “just” fit?

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