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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What holiday passes while the family is staying at the country house?
(a) New Year’s Eve
(b) Thanksgiving
(c) Easter
(d) Fourth of July

3. What is the illness that the narrator is suffering from?
(a) Bi-polar disorder
(b) Severe loneliness
(c) Post-partum depression
(d) Schizophrenia

4. When does the narrator think the woman in the wallpaper gets out?
(a) During the nighttime
(b) During the daytime
(c) When she is hungry
(d) When she is tired

5. What does John make the narrator drink as a cure?
(a) Green tea
(b) Cod liver oil
(c) Water
(d) Milk

Short Answer Questions

1. In the opening pages, what does the narrator’s husband not believe?

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

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

4. What does the narrator believe cultivates deceit?

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

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