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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 tie up the woman if she tries to escape
(b) Use it to hang the woman
(c) Use it to escape out the window
(d) Use it to move the bed from the wall

2. When the narrator makes the plan to get off the wallpaper before John notices, how long do they have left at the house?
(a) Two years
(b) Two days
(c) Two weeks
(d) Two months

3. What does John promise the narrator?
(a) Another baby
(b) A little trip
(c) New books
(d) A new home

4. The narrator gets up in the middle of the night to do what?
(a) Run away
(b) Get a drink of water
(c) Feed her baby
(d) Feel if the wallpaper is moving

5. Fill in the blanks respectively: I _________ at nothing, and ________most of the time.
(a) Cry, laugh
(b) Cry, cry
(c) Laugh, laugh
(d) Laugh, cry

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the narrator throw down into the garden path?

2. What does the narrator think John is looking at when he is in the room?

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

4. What does the narrator think about doing to the house “to reach the smell”?

5. John threatens to send the narrator to whom?

(see the answer key)

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