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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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) Derision
(b) Hysterics
(c) Anguish
(d) Laughter

2. The narrator believes that the wallpaper has a ________.
(a) Sub-design
(b) Present for her
(c) Beautiful pattern
(d) Secret message

3. Fill in the blank: It goes behind every piece of furniture, except the bed, a long, straight, even ________, as if it had been rubbed over and over.
(a) Smooch
(b) Stripe
(c) Vine
(d) Line

4. The story covers the span of what season?
(a) Fall
(b) Summer
(c) Spring
(d) Winter

5. What does Jennie not realize that the narrator has?
(a) A chain
(b) A rope
(c) A knife
(d) Food

Short Answer Questions

1. What type of figure does the narrator believe she sees in the pattern?

2. Who carries the narrator upstairs to her room?

3. Where does John go toward the end of the story?

4. Why does the narrator stop looking out the windows?

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

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