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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who does the narrator want to help the woman in the wallpaper?
(a) Herself
(b) John
(c) Mary
(d) Jennie

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

3. The narrator describes the wallpaper having a recurrent spot where the pattern lolls like a broken neck and _____________
(a) it scares me
(b) an eyeless face sneers at you
(c) two bulbous eyes stare at you upside down
(d) a scabrous mouth opens again and again, as if screaming

4. What is torn off in patches in the country house?
(a) The wallpaper
(b) The garden-shed roof
(c) The wooden floor
(d) The curtains

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Fill in the blanks respectively: I _________ at nothing, and ________most of the time.

2. The protagonist is narrating her what?

3. What does the narrator throw down into the garden path?

4. Whom does the narrator want to visit?

5. What year was this story published?

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