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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does the narrator believe that the figure in the wallpaper is inactive during the day?
(a) She is distracted by the wallpaper
(b) She is eating
(c) She is sleeping
(d) She is scared

2. Who is the housekeeper?
(a) Weir Mitchell
(b) Jennie, John’s sister
(c) John
(d) Mary, the nursemaid

3. Where does her shoulder “just” fit?
(a) In a nook in the corner
(b) In the long smooch along the wall
(c) In the hole in the wall
(d) Out the window

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the narrator say it looks like the bed has been through?

2. Who does the narrator plan on helping while John is away?

3. What does John cry for to break down the door?

4. What does the narrator think about doing to the house “to reach the smell”?

5. What is the illness that the narrator is suffering from?

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