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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 the narrator throw down into the garden path?
(a) A knife
(b) The shreds of wallpaper
(c) The rope
(d) The key to the room

2. Who or what does think is shaking the wallpaper?
(a) The yellow color
(b) The pattern
(c) The woman
(d) The bars

3. What does the narrator say she watches always?
(a) The wallpaper
(b) The television
(c) The window
(d) The baby

4. In what genre would this story be categorized?
(a) A novel
(b) An article
(c) A novella
(d) A personal essay

5. Who does the narrator plan on helping while John is away?
(a) The woman in the wallpaper
(b) John
(c) Jennie
(d) Her infant

Short Answer Questions

1. When the narrator makes the plan to get off the wallpaper before John notices, how long do they have left at the house?

2. What type of figure does the narrator believe she sees in the pattern?

3. What is nailed down in the narrator’s room?

4. When does the narrator think the woman in the wallpaper gets out?

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

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