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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does the narrator stop mentioning to John and Jennie?
(a) The sickness
(b) The nursery
(c) The wallpaper
(d) The baby

3. What does the narrator think about doing to the house “to reach the smell”?
(a) Re-furnishing the house
(b) Burn the house down
(c) Wash all of the surfaces with ammonia
(d) Re-paint the house

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

5. What does Jennie not realize that the narrator has?
(a) Food
(b) A knife
(c) A rope
(d) A chain

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does the narrator say it looks like the bed has been through?

3. What is the profession of the narrator’s husband?

4. What does the narrator say she watches always?

5. Where doesn’t the narrator want to go at the end of the story?

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