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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In the opening pages, what does the narrator’s husband not believe?
(a) That women should be allowed to vote
(b) How expensive the summer home is
(c) That the narrator is sick
(d) That the baby is his

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

3. Where doesn’t the narrator want to go at the end of the story?
(a) To the kitchen
(b) Outside
(c) To the nursery
(d) Home

4. What does the narrator believe cultivates deceit?
(a) Eating sweets when no one is looking
(b) Lying awake during the sanctioned naptimes
(c) Writing in her journal
(d) Watching the wallpaper

5. What is torn off in patches in the country house?
(a) The wooden floor
(b) The garden-shed roof
(c) The wallpaper
(d) The curtains

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What does the narrator try - but fails – to move?

4. In the last paragraph, what does the narrator do?

5. What is the profession of the narrator’s husband?

(see the answer key)

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