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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Yellow Wallpaper.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. What is torn off in patches in the country house?
(a) The curtains
(b) The wallpaper
(c) The wooden floor
(d) The garden-shed roof

5. What does the narrator do while John is gone?
(a) Runs away
(b) Jumps out the window
(c) Shreds the sheets
(d) Peels the wallpaper

Short Answer Questions

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

2. The narrator follows what/whom?

3. What is the illness that the narrator is suffering from?

4. Which room does the narrator’s husband choose for her room?

5. What does John force the narrator to do after every meal?

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