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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. John threatens to send the narrator to whom?
(a) Walter West
(b) William Overtell
(c) Weir Mitchell
(d) Wallis Simpson

2. Who carries the narrator upstairs to her room?
(a) Jennie
(b) John
(c) The groundskeeper
(d) Ronaldo

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

4. What does the narrator think that the figure in the wallpaper is trying to do?
(a) Sleep
(b) Escape
(c) Eat dinner
(d) Fight the wallpaper pattern

5. What color stains does Jennie find on their clothing?
(a) Red
(b) Black
(c) Yellow
(d) Green

Short Answer Questions

1. The story covers the span of what season?

2. What does John promise the narrator?

3. What does the narrator do while John is gone?

4. Fill in the blank: As she is peeling the wallpaper off, she thinks that the pattern of heads and bulbous eyes are “shrieking with _________”?

5. How much time passes before the narration continues after it suddenly stopped in the first section?

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