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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does the moonlight illuminate on the wallpaper?
(a) Bars
(b) Roast beef
(c) Knives
(d) Honeycombs

3. 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) Vine
(b) Stripe
(c) Smooch
(d) Line

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In what genre would this story be categorized?

2. Who is the housekeeper?

3. What does the narrator “securely fasten” herself with?

4. The narrator follows what/whom?

5. What holiday passes while the family is staying at the country house?

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