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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 think John is looking at when he is in the room?
(a) The view out the window
(b) The wallpaper
(c) The nailed-down bed
(d) The bars on the window

2. What does the narrator do while John is gone?
(a) Jumps out the window
(b) Shreds the sheets
(c) Runs away
(d) Peels the wallpaper

3. What year was this story published?
(a) 1980
(b) 1892
(c) 2001
(d) 1888

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

5. In her fury, what does the narrator bite?
(a) The wallpaper
(b) The windowsill
(c) The bed
(d) The rope

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Why can’t the figure in the pattern escape?

3. How does the narrator describe the “report” that was given?

4. Who is the author of The Yellow Wallpaper?

5. What figure becomes very clear in moonlight, clearer than before: “plain as can be.”

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