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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In the last paragraph, what does the narrator do?
(a) Call for help
(b) Walk over John who is in her path
(c) Leave the room and walk out into the dark night
(d) Cry

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

3. The narrator gets up in the middle of the night to do what?
(a) Run away
(b) Get a drink of water
(c) Feed her baby
(d) Feel if the wallpaper is moving

4. Who is the housekeeper?
(a) Weir Mitchell
(b) Mary, the nursemaid
(c) Jennie, John’s sister
(d) John

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. Who comes to the door when the narrator is creeping along the wall?

4. What does the narrator think about doing to the house “to reach the smell”?

5. Fill in the blanks respectively: I _________ at nothing, and ________most of the time.

(see the answer key)

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