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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) The shreds of wallpaper
(b) A knife
(c) The rope
(d) The key to the room

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

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

4. What does the narrator stop mentioning to John and Jennie?
(a) The nursery
(b) The sickness
(c) The baby
(d) The wallpaper

5. Fill in the blanks respectively: I _________ at nothing, and ________most of the time.
(a) Laugh, cry
(b) Cry, laugh
(c) Cry, cry
(d) Laugh, laugh

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does the moonlight illuminate on the wallpaper?

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

4. Who does the narrator become afraid of?

5. What is torn off in patches in the country house?

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