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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 nailed down in the narrator’s room?
(a) The bed
(b) The desk
(c) The reading chair
(d) The rug

2. In what point of view is the story written?
(a) Second
(b) Third, omniscient
(c) First
(d) Third, limited

3. Why can’t the figure in the pattern escape?
(a) She can’t find her way out
(b) She needs the narrator to help her
(c) She doesn’t really want to escape
(d) The pattern would strangle her

4. When the narrator makes the plan to get off the wallpaper before John notices, how long do they have left at the house?
(a) Two weeks
(b) Two years
(c) Two months
(d) Two days

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is torn off in patches in the country house?

2. Fill in the blank: The narrator is so angry at the climax of the story that she wants to ___________.

3. Who does the narrator want to help the woman in the wallpaper?

4. What does the housekeeper think has made the narrator sick?

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

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