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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 what genre would this story be categorized?
(a) An article
(b) A personal essay
(c) A novel
(d) A novella

2. The protagonist is narrating her what?
(a) Article for a woman’s magazine
(b) Letter to her physician
(c) Letter to her mother
(d) Diary

3. What does the narrator throw down into the garden path?
(a) The key to the room
(b) A knife
(c) The shreds of wallpaper
(d) The rope

4. Jennie says what stains all of their clothing?
(a) The wallpaper
(b) Infant formula
(c) Flower pollen
(d) Wine

5. Who carries the narrator upstairs to her room?
(a) John
(b) Ronaldo
(c) Jennie
(d) The groundskeeper

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does the narrator spend most of her time in the country house?

2. Whose perspective is the story being told from?

3. John’s reason for not taking the narrator away from the summerhouse and frightful bedroom is?

4. In what point of view is the story written?

5. Fill in the blank: It goes behind every piece of furniture, except the bed, a long, straight, even ________, as if it had been rubbed over and over.

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