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

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

3. Who does the narrator want to help the woman in the wallpaper?
(a) Jennie
(b) Mary
(c) Herself
(d) John

4. In what point of view is the story written?
(a) Third, limited
(b) Second
(c) First
(d) Third, omniscient

5. What is torn off in patches in the country house?
(a) The wooden floor
(b) The garden-shed roof
(c) The curtains
(d) The wallpaper

Short Answer Questions

1. Who faints at the end of the story?

2. The narrator believes that the wallpaper has a ________.

3. The protagonist is narrating her what?

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

5. What does the narrator say she watches always?

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