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

2. Fill in the blank: As she is peeling the wallpaper off, she thinks that the pattern of heads and bulbous eyes are “shrieking with _________”?
(a) Hysterics
(b) Derision
(c) Anguish
(d) Laughter

3. Whose perspective is the story being told from?
(a) John’s
(b) Jane’s
(c) The unnamed protagonist’s
(d) Jennie’s

4. The narrator gets up in the middle of the night to do what?
(a) Run away
(b) Feed her baby
(c) Get a drink of water
(d) Feel if the wallpaper is moving

5. John calls the narrator back to bed by calling her this name:
(a) Pumpkin
(b) Little girl
(c) Honey Darling
(d) Sweetheart

Short Answer Questions

1. In the first section, why does the protagonist’s narration suddenly end?

2. What does John force the narrator to do after every meal?

3. What does the narrator say she watches always?

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

5. How much time passes before the narration continues after it suddenly stopped in the first section?

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