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

2. Who does the narrator think she sees creeping outside her windows?
(a) Jennie
(b) The woman in the wallpaper
(c) John
(d) Mary

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

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 _________”?
(a) Anguish
(b) Derision
(c) Hysterics
(d) Laughter

5. Whose perspective is the story being told from?
(a) Jane’s
(b) Jennie’s
(c) John’s
(d) The unnamed protagonist’s

Short Answer Questions

1. In the last paragraph, what does the narrator do?

2. What does the narrator say it looks like the bed has been through?

3. What does the narrator increasingly like about her bedroom?

4. What does the moonlight illuminate on the wallpaper?

5. The story covers the span of what season?

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