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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 type of figure does the narrator believe she sees in the pattern?
(a) A child
(b) A woman
(c) A man
(d) An infant

2. Who does the narrator think she sees creeping outside her windows?
(a) The woman in the wallpaper
(b) John
(c) Jennie
(d) Mary

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

4. What does the narrator think is happening to the wallpaper pattern at night?
(a) It is talking to her
(b) It is humming
(c) It is peeling itself off of the wall
(d) It is shaking

5. Who is the author of The Yellow Wallpaper?
(a) Charlotte Perkins Gilman
(b) Emily Bronte
(c) Barbara Kingsolver
(d) Jane Austen

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Where doesn’t the narrator want to go at the end of the story?

3. Whose perspective is the story being told from?

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

5. What does the narrator think that the figure in the wallpaper is trying to do?

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