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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 say she watches always?
(a) The wallpaper
(b) The television
(c) The window
(d) The baby

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

3. Where doesn’t the narrator want to go at the end of the story?
(a) To the nursery
(b) To the kitchen
(c) Outside
(d) Home

4. When does the narrator say the wallpaper becomes clearer?
(a) In the morning
(b) In the moonlight
(c) In the evening
(d) In the afternoon

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who or what does think is shaking the wallpaper?

2. Where does her shoulder “just” fit?

3. In what genre would this story be categorized?

4. What is nailed down in the narrator’s room?

5. How does the narrator describe the wallpaper’s smell?

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