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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 does the narrator do while John is gone?
(a) Shreds the sheets
(b) Peels the wallpaper
(c) Runs away
(d) Jumps out the window

2. What is torn off in patches in the country house?
(a) The wooden floor
(b) The curtains
(c) The wallpaper
(d) The garden-shed roof

3. Fill in the blanks respectively: I _________ at nothing, and ________most of the time.
(a) Cry, cry
(b) Cry, laugh
(c) Laugh, laugh
(d) Laugh, cry

4. Whom does the narrator want to visit?
(a) Her sister Jane and husband
(b) Her cousin Henry and Julia
(c) Her mother and Father
(d) Her dog, Jasper, at the city house

5. In what point of view is the story written?
(a) Third, omniscient
(b) Second
(c) Third, limited
(d) First

Short Answer Questions

1. What does John promise the narrator?

2. The narrator describes the wallpaper having a recurrent spot where the pattern lolls like a broken neck and _____________

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

4. John thinks the narrator is getting _________ when he talks to her in the night.

5. What does the narrator throw down into the garden path?

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