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

2. What does John make the narrator drink as a cure?
(a) Milk
(b) Green tea
(c) Water
(d) Cod liver oil

3. 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

4. How does the narrator describe the wallpaper’s smell?
(a) A sour smell
(b) A sweet smell
(c) A yellow smell
(d) A black smell

5. Who comes to the door when the narrator is creeping along the wall?
(a) John
(b) Mary
(c) Jennie
(d) Weir Mitchell

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does the narrator spend most of her time in the country house?

2. What does the narrator think is happening to the wallpaper pattern at night?

3. Who does John ask to give a report about the narrator’s wellbeing?

4. What does the narrator say she watches always?

5. What figure becomes very clear in moonlight, clearer than before: “plain as can be.”

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