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

2. What does the narrator “securely fasten” herself with?
(a) The bed sheets
(b) The drapery
(c) Restrictive clothing
(d) A rope

3. Who carries the narrator upstairs to her room?
(a) John
(b) The groundskeeper
(c) Ronaldo
(d) Jennie

4. What does the narrator say it looks like the bed has been through?
(a) Wars
(b) Neglectful housekeeping
(c) Many fitful children
(d) Centuries

5. How much time passes before the narration continues after it suddenly stopped in the first section?
(a) One Month
(b) Two weeks
(c) Three days
(d) Two months

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the illness that the narrator is suffering from?

2. The narrator believes that the wallpaper has a ________.

3. In what point of view is the story written?

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

5. How does the narrator describe the “report” that was given?

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