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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does the narrator describe the wallpaper’s smell?
(a) A yellow smell
(b) A sour smell
(c) A black smell
(d) A sweet smell

2. Why can’t the figure in the pattern escape?
(a) She can’t find her way out
(b) She needs the narrator to help her
(c) She doesn’t really want to escape
(d) The pattern would strangle her

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

4. John advices the narrator to not allow the what to run away with her?
(a) Her hunger
(b) Her fancies
(c) Her motherly love
(d) Gardener

5. Fill in the blanks respectively: I _________ at nothing, and ________most of the time.
(a) Laugh, laugh
(b) Cry, cry
(c) Cry, laugh
(d) Laugh, cry

Short Answer Questions

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

2. The narrator describes the wallpaper having a recurrent spot where the pattern lolls like a broken neck and _____________

3. Who is the author of The Yellow Wallpaper?

4. What does the narrator believe cultivates deceit?

5. What is nailed down in the narrator’s room?

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