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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) Laughter
(c) Anguish
(d) Hysterics

2. What does the narrator stop mentioning to John and Jennie?
(a) The baby
(b) The sickness
(c) The wallpaper
(d) The nursery

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

4. When does the narrator say the wallpaper becomes clearer?
(a) In the moonlight
(b) In the morning
(c) In the afternoon
(d) In the evening

5. The protagonist is narrating her what?
(a) Article for a woman’s magazine
(b) Diary
(c) Letter to her mother
(d) Letter to her physician

Short Answer Questions

1. Why won’t John let the narrator go on her desired visit?

2. Which room does the narrator’s husband choose for her room?

3. What does the narrator think about doing to the house “to reach the smell”?

4. Why does the narrator believe that the figure in the wallpaper is inactive during the day?

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

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