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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 throw down into the garden path?
(a) The rope
(b) The shreds of wallpaper
(c) The key to the room
(d) A knife

2. Who comes to the door when the narrator is creeping along the wall?
(a) Jennie
(b) John
(c) Mary
(d) Weir Mitchell

3. John calls the narrator back to bed by calling her this name:
(a) Little girl
(b) Pumpkin
(c) Honey Darling
(d) Sweetheart

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

5. 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) Anguish
(c) Laughter
(d) Hysterics

Short Answer Questions

1. The story covers the span of what season?

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

3. What does the narrator think John is looking at when he is in the room?

4. In what genre would this story be categorized?

5. Why can’t the figure in the pattern escape?

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