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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. At the climax of the story, who does the narrator think that she has become?
(a) Mary
(b) John
(c) The woman in the wallpaper
(d) Jennie

2. What does the narrator throw down into the garden path?
(a) The rope
(b) A knife
(c) The shreds of wallpaper
(d) The key to the room

3. What does the narrator increasingly like about her bedroom?
(a) The wallpaper
(b) The bed
(c) The view of the gardens
(d) The desk at which she writes

4. Fill in the blank: The narrator is so angry at the climax of the story that she wants to ___________.
(a) Cry
(b) Jump out the window
(c) Kill John
(d) Sleep

5. Fill in the blank: As she is peeling the wallpaper off, she thinks that the pattern of heads and bulbous eyes are “shrieking with _________”?
(a) Laughter
(b) Anguish
(c) Derision
(d) Hysterics

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the narrator “securely fasten” herself with?

2. The story covers the span of what season?

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

4. What does John make the narrator drink as a cure?

5. The narrator begs John to _______:

(see the answer key)

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