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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 type of figure does the narrator believe she sees in the pattern?
(a) A child
(b) An infant
(c) A woman
(d) A man

2. Who does John ask to give a report about the narrator’s wellbeing?
(a) Mary
(b) Jennie
(c) Weir Mitchell
(d) The narrator

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

4. How does the narrator describe the wallpaper’s smell?
(a) A yellow smell
(b) A sweet smell
(c) A black smell
(d) A sour smell

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why won’t John let the narrator go on her desired visit?

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 _________”?

3. Who does the narrator say is her one comfort?

4. The narrator follows what/whom?

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

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