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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Jennie says what stains all of their clothing?
(a) Infant formula
(b) The wallpaper
(c) Flower pollen
(d) Wine

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

3. What does the narrator think John is looking at when he is in the room?
(a) The nailed-down bed
(b) The bars on the window
(c) The wallpaper
(d) The view out the window

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

5. John advices the narrator to not allow the what to run away with her?
(a) Her motherly love
(b) Gardener
(c) Her fancies
(d) Her hunger

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does John ask to give a report about the narrator’s wellbeing?

2. Fill in the blanks respectively: I _________ at nothing, and ________most of the time.

3. Who does the narrator become afraid of?

4. Fill in the blank: As she is peeling the wallpaper off, she thinks that the pattern of heads and bulbous eyes are “shrieking with _________”?

5. In what genre would this story be categorized?

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