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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Who does the narrator plan on helping while John is away?
(a) Her infant
(b) Jennie
(c) The woman in the wallpaper
(d) John

3. Who or what does think is shaking the wallpaper?
(a) The bars
(b) The pattern
(c) The woman
(d) The yellow color

4. What type of figure does the narrator believe she sees in the pattern?
(a) An infant
(b) A child
(c) A man
(d) A woman

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does John promise the narrator?

2. Who faints at the end of the story?

3. What does the narrator think John is looking at when he is in the room?

4. Why does the unnamed protagonist believe that she and her husband were able to rent the mansion for the summer?

5. What does the narrator say she watches always?

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