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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 year was this story published?
(a) 1980
(b) 1892
(c) 2001
(d) 1888

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

3. What does the narrator believe cultivates deceit?
(a) Watching the wallpaper
(b) Eating sweets when no one is looking
(c) Lying awake during the sanctioned naptimes
(d) Writing in her journal

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

5. What does John force the narrator to do after every meal?
(a) Walk through the garden
(b) Drink coffee
(c) Take a nap
(d) Bathe

Short Answer Questions

1. Jennie says what stains all of their clothing?

2. What is nailed down in the narrator’s room?

3. 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.

4. In what point of view is the story written?

5. What is the profession of the narrator’s husband?

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