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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. John calls the narrator back to bed by calling her this name:
(a) Honey Darling
(b) Pumpkin
(c) Sweetheart
(d) Little girl

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

3. Fill in the blank: The narrator is so angry at the climax of the story that she wants to ___________.
(a) Jump out the window
(b) Kill John
(c) Cry
(d) Sleep

4. The narrator follows what/whom?
(a) Her son around the house
(b) John around the gardens
(c) A horse in the field
(d) The wallpaper’s pattern around the room

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Where does the narrator plan to go at nightfall, describing that it will be difficult to do?

3. Why does the narrator stop looking out the windows?

4. Where does her shoulder “just” fit?

5. John’s reason for not taking the narrator away from the summerhouse and frightful bedroom is?

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