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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 is the profession of the narrator’s husband?
(a) Politician
(b) Writer
(c) Physician
(d) Lawyer

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

3. In what genre would this story be categorized?
(a) A novel
(b) A personal essay
(c) A novella
(d) An article

4. Why does the narrator believe that the figure in the wallpaper is inactive during the day?
(a) She is sleeping
(b) She is scared
(c) She is distracted by the wallpaper
(d) She is eating

5. Why does the unnamed protagonist believe that she and her husband were able to rent the mansion for the summer?
(a) They were evicted from their city home
(b) They received an inheritance
(c) Because it is haunted
(d) Because her husband needs to visit for work

Short Answer Questions

1. How long is John gone for toward the end of the story?

2. Who or what does think is shaking the wallpaper?

3. Whose perspective is the story being told from?

4. What figure becomes very clear in moonlight, clearer than before: “plain as can be.”

5. When the narrator makes the plan to get off the wallpaper before John notices, how long do they have left at the house?

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