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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The narrator describes the wallpaper having a recurrent spot where the pattern lolls like a broken neck and _____________
(a) two bulbous eyes stare at you upside down
(b) an eyeless face sneers at you
(c) a scabrous mouth opens again and again, as if screaming
(d) it scares me

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

3. In the first section, why does the protagonist’s narration suddenly end?
(a) She is out of paper
(b) Her husband is coming
(c) She has nothing else to say
(d) She falls asleep

4. Who does the narrator think she sees creeping outside her windows?
(a) Jennie
(b) Mary
(c) The woman in the wallpaper
(d) John

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How long is John gone for toward the end of the story?

2. In what genre would this story be categorized?

3. The protagonist is narrating her what?

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

5. The narrator gets up in the middle of the night to do what?

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