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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does the moonlight illuminate on the wallpaper?
(a) Bars
(b) Roast beef
(c) Knives
(d) Honeycombs

3. What figure becomes very clear in moonlight, clearer than before: “plain as can be.”
(a) A woman
(b) An infant
(c) A man
(d) A child

4. What is the profession of the narrator’s husband?
(a) Politician
(b) Physician
(c) Lawyer
(d) Writer

5. Where does the narrator plan to go at nightfall, describing that it will be difficult to do?
(a) The garden
(b) Into the wallpaper
(c) The nursery
(d) Home to her apartment in the country

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the housekeeper?

2. Where does the narrator spend most of her time in the country house?

3. What does the narrator stop mentioning to John and Jennie?

4. In the first section, why does the protagonist’s narration suddenly end?

5. What does the narrator think is happening to the wallpaper pattern at night?

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