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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 narrator throw down into the garden path?
(a) The rope
(b) A knife
(c) The key to the room
(d) The shreds of wallpaper

2. What does the housekeeper think has made the narrator sick?
(a) Lyme disease
(b) Childbirth
(c) Reading
(d) Writing

3. In the opening pages, what does the narrator’s husband not believe?
(a) That the narrator is sick
(b) That the baby is his
(c) That women should be allowed to vote
(d) How expensive the summer home is

4. In what genre would this story be categorized?
(a) An article
(b) A personal essay
(c) A novel
(d) A novella

5. What is the illness that the narrator is suffering from?
(a) Severe loneliness
(b) Post-partum depression
(c) Schizophrenia
(d) Bi-polar disorder

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the housekeeper?

2. Why does the narrator believe that the figure in the wallpaper is inactive during the day?

3. What does the narrator initially want to do with a rope?

4. How does the narrator describe the “report” that was given?

5. Whose perspective is the story being told from?

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