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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When does the narrator think the woman in the wallpaper gets out?
(a) During the nighttime
(b) During the daytime
(c) When she is tired
(d) When she is hungry

2. What does the narrator think about doing to the house “to reach the smell”?
(a) Burn the house down
(b) Wash all of the surfaces with ammonia
(c) Re-paint the house
(d) Re-furnishing the house

3. What does the narrator stop mentioning to John and Jennie?
(a) The baby
(b) The nursery
(c) The sickness
(d) The wallpaper

4. What does the narrator do while John is gone?
(a) Peels the wallpaper
(b) Shreds the sheets
(c) Runs away
(d) Jumps out the window

5. What does the narrator say it looks like the bed has been through?
(a) Neglectful housekeeping
(b) Wars
(c) Centuries
(d) Many fitful children

Short Answer Questions

1. What is torn off in patches in the country house?

2. What does the narrator try - but fails – to move?

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

4. What figure becomes very clear in moonlight, clearer than before: “plain as can be.”

5. Jennie says what stains all of their clothing?

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