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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: It goes behind every piece of furniture, except the bed, a long, straight, even ________, as if it had been rubbed over and over.
(a) Smooch
(b) Line
(c) Stripe
(d) Vine

2. Why does the narrator stop looking out the windows?
(a) She sees lots of creeping women
(b) She doesn’t want John to see her
(c) It is making her feel dizzy
(d) She’s afraid she’ll jump out

3. John threatens to send the narrator to whom?
(a) Weir Mitchell
(b) Wallis Simpson
(c) William Overtell
(d) Walter West

4. The narrator believes that the wallpaper has a ________.
(a) Beautiful pattern
(b) Present for her
(c) Sub-design
(d) Secret message

5. John’s reason for not taking the narrator away from the summerhouse and frightful bedroom is?
(a) He wants to live there permanently
(b) The baby is ill and cannot travel
(c) Their lease is up in three weeks
(d) He believes that if she stays she’ll get better

Short Answer Questions

1. In what genre would this story be categorized?

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

3. John advices the narrator to not allow the what to run away with her?

4. What does the narrator do while John is gone?

5. How does the narrator describe the “report” that was given?

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