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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Whose perspective is the story being told from?
(a) The unnamed protagonist’s
(b) Jennie’s
(c) John’s
(d) Jane’s

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

3. Which room does the narrator’s husband choose for her room?
(a) A screened-in porch
(b) The nursery
(c) The parlor
(d) A guest apartment suite

4. Fill in the blank: It goes behind every piece of furniture, except the bed, a long, straight, even ________, as if it had been rubbed over and over.
(a) Stripe
(b) Line
(c) Smooch
(d) Vine

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is nailed down in the narrator’s room?

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

3. Who carries the narrator upstairs to her room?

4. Why does the narrator believe that the figure in the wallpaper is inactive during the day?

5. In the first section, why does the protagonist’s narration suddenly end?

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