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

2. At the climax of the story, who does the narrator think that she has become?
(a) The woman in the wallpaper
(b) Jennie
(c) Mary
(d) John

3. The narrator believes that the wallpaper has a(n) _________.
(a) A stain
(b) A feeling
(c) An odor
(d) An alibi

4. John’s reason for not taking the narrator away from the summerhouse and frightful bedroom is?
(a) He wants to live there permanently
(b) Their lease is up in three weeks
(c) The baby is ill and cannot travel
(d) He believes that if she stays she’ll get better

5. The narrator gets up in the middle of the night to do what?
(a) Run away
(b) Feed her baby
(c) Feel if the wallpaper is moving
(d) Get a drink of water

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the moonlight illuminate on the wallpaper?

2. What does the housekeeper think has made the narrator sick?

3. In her fury, what does the narrator bite?

4. In the first section, why does the protagonist’s narration suddenly end?

5. Whose perspective is the story being told from?

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