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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where does the narrator spend most of her time in the country house?
(a) The back porch
(b) The baby’s room
(c) Walking along the garden pathways
(d) The nursery

2. What does Jennie not realize that the narrator has?
(a) A rope
(b) A chain
(c) A knife
(d) Food

3. When does the narrator say the wallpaper becomes clearer?
(a) In the moonlight
(b) In the morning
(c) In the afternoon
(d) In the evening

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. The story covers the span of what season?

2. The narrator gets up in the middle of the night to do what?

3. What is the narrator’s husband’s name?

4. Who or what does think is shaking the wallpaper?

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

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