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

2. What does the narrator believe cultivates deceit?
(a) Eating sweets when no one is looking
(b) Watching the wallpaper
(c) Writing in her journal
(d) Lying awake during the sanctioned naptimes

3. What does John cry for to break down the door?
(a) A sledgehammer
(b) An axe
(c) A butcher knife
(d) A fire poker

4. What does the narrator increasingly like about her bedroom?
(a) The view of the gardens
(b) The bed
(c) The wallpaper
(d) The desk at which she writes

5. What year was this story published?
(a) 2001
(b) 1892
(c) 1888
(d) 1980

Short Answer Questions

1. The narrator describes the wallpaper having a recurrent spot where the pattern lolls like a broken neck and _____________

2. The narrator follows what/whom?

3. What is torn off in patches in the country house?

4. What does the narrator think that the figure in the wallpaper is trying to do?

5. Who does the narrator say is her one comfort?

(see the answer key)

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