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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 calls the narrator back to bed by calling her this name:
(a) Sweetheart
(b) Little girl
(c) Pumpkin
(d) Honey Darling

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

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

4. Who does the narrator want to help the woman in the wallpaper?
(a) Mary
(b) Jennie
(c) John
(d) Herself

5. What does the narrator think about doing to the house “to reach the smell”?
(a) Re-furnishing the house
(b) Wash all of the surfaces with ammonia
(c) Re-paint the house
(d) Burn the house down

Short Answer Questions

1. At the climax of the story, who does the narrator think that she has become?

2. What does John promise the narrator?

3. When does the narrator think the woman in the wallpaper gets out?

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

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

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