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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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) Derision
(b) Hysterics
(c) Anguish
(d) Laughter

2. Fill in the blank: The narrator is so angry at the climax of the story that she wants to ___________.
(a) Sleep
(b) Cry
(c) Kill John
(d) Jump out the window

3. What does the narrator initially want to do with a rope?
(a) Use it to move the bed from the wall
(b) Use it to hang the woman
(c) Use it to tie up the woman if she tries to escape
(d) Use it to escape out the window

4. What does the narrator say she watches always?
(a) The baby
(b) The wallpaper
(c) The window
(d) The television

5. Which room does the narrator’s husband choose for her room?
(a) The parlor
(b) A guest apartment suite
(c) The nursery
(d) A screened-in porch

Short Answer Questions

1. The narrator believes that the wallpaper has a(n) _________.

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

3. In the opening pages, what does the narrator’s husband not believe?

4. What does the moonlight illuminate on the wallpaper?

5. What does the narrator increasingly like about her bedroom?

(see the answer key)

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