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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) A man
(b) A woman
(c) A child
(d) An infant

2. What is nailed down in the narrator’s room?
(a) The reading chair
(b) The desk
(c) The bed
(d) The rug

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

4. At the climax of the story, who does the narrator think that she has become?
(a) The woman in the wallpaper
(b) John
(c) Mary
(d) Jennie

5. The protagonist is narrating her what?
(a) Article for a woman’s magazine
(b) Diary
(c) Letter to her mother
(d) Letter to her physician

Short Answer Questions

1. Why won’t John let the narrator go on her desired visit?

2. What year was this story published?

3. What does the moonlight illuminate on the wallpaper?

4. What does the narrator think is happening to the wallpaper pattern at night?

5. The narrator believes that the wallpaper has a ________.

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