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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does the narrator stop looking out the windows?
(a) She doesn’t want John to see her
(b) It is making her feel dizzy
(c) She sees lots of creeping women
(d) She’s afraid she’ll jump out

2. What is the narrator’s husband’s name?
(a) John
(b) Max
(c) Thomas
(d) William

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

4. The story covers the span of what season?
(a) Summer
(b) Winter
(c) Spring
(d) Fall

5. What color stains does Jennie find on their clothing?
(a) Green
(b) Red
(c) Black
(d) Yellow

Short Answer Questions

1. In what genre would this story be categorized?

2. Who carries the narrator upstairs to her room?

3. The narrator describes the wallpaper having a recurrent spot where the pattern lolls like a broken neck and _____________

4. Fill in the blank: As she is peeling the wallpaper off, she thinks that the pattern of heads and bulbous eyes are “shrieking with _________”?

5. What is the illness that the narrator is suffering from?

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