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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 does the narrator believe that the figure in the wallpaper is inactive during the day?
(a) She is sleeping
(b) She is scared
(c) She is distracted by the wallpaper
(d) She is eating

2. The narrator describes the wallpaper having a recurrent spot where the pattern lolls like a broken neck and _____________
(a) two bulbous eyes stare at you upside down
(b) an eyeless face sneers at you
(c) a scabrous mouth opens again and again, as if screaming
(d) it scares me

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

4. Where doesn’t the narrator want to go at the end of the story?
(a) Outside
(b) To the kitchen
(c) Home
(d) To the nursery

5. What figure becomes very clear in moonlight, clearer than before: “plain as can be.”
(a) A woman
(b) A child
(c) An infant
(d) A man

Short Answer Questions

1. Why can’t the door to the nursery be opened?

2. What does John cry for to break down the door?

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

4. When does the narrator think the woman in the wallpaper gets out?

5. The protagonist is narrating her what?

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