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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 is nailed down in the narrator’s room?
(a) The desk
(b) The bed
(c) The reading chair
(d) The rug

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

3. What does John cry for to break down the door?
(a) A sledgehammer
(b) A fire poker
(c) A butcher knife
(d) An axe

4. The narrator begs John to _______:
(a) Cuddle with her
(b) Bring the baby to her
(c) Leave
(d) Go shopping

5. What does the narrator do while John is gone?
(a) Peels the wallpaper
(b) Runs away
(c) Jumps out the window
(d) Shreds the sheets

Short Answer Questions

1. How does the narrator describe the wallpaper’s smell?

2. At the climax of the story, who does the narrator think that she has become?

3. What does the narrator say it looks like the bed has been through?

4. John calls the narrator back to bed by calling her this name:

5. The narrator believes that the wallpaper has a(n) _________.

(see the answer key)

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