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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 does the narrator say she watches always?
(a) The wallpaper
(b) The window
(c) The baby
(d) The television

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

3. What is the profession of the narrator’s husband?
(a) Physician
(b) Politician
(c) Lawyer
(d) Writer

4. What does the housekeeper think has made the narrator sick?
(a) Lyme disease
(b) Childbirth
(c) Reading
(d) Writing

5. Whose perspective is the story being told from?
(a) Jane’s
(b) The unnamed protagonist’s
(c) John’s
(d) Jennie’s

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does the narrator think that the figure in the wallpaper is trying to do?

3. Who carries the narrator upstairs to her room?

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

5. In what genre would this story be categorized?

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