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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 think is happening to the wallpaper pattern at night?
(a) It is shaking
(b) It is talking to her
(c) It is peeling itself off of the wall
(d) It is humming

2. What does John cry for to break down the door?
(a) A butcher knife
(b) An axe
(c) A sledgehammer
(d) A fire poker

3. How does the narrator describe the wallpaper’s smell?
(a) A sour smell
(b) A black smell
(c) A yellow smell
(d) A sweet smell

4. What does the housekeeper think has made the narrator sick?
(a) Writing
(b) Reading
(c) Lyme disease
(d) Childbirth

5. Why does the narrator stop looking out the windows?
(a) She doesn’t want John to see her
(b) She’s afraid she’ll jump out
(c) She sees lots of creeping women
(d) It is making her feel dizzy

Short Answer Questions

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

2. John’s reason for not taking the narrator away from the summerhouse and frightful bedroom is?

3. What does the narrator believe cultivates deceit?

4. Who does the narrator say is her one comfort?

5. Where doesn’t the narrator want to go at the end of the story?

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