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

2. What does the narrator do while John is gone?
(a) Peels the wallpaper
(b) Jumps out the window
(c) Shreds the sheets
(d) Runs away

3. What does the narrator think that the figure in the wallpaper is trying to do?
(a) Sleep
(b) Fight the wallpaper pattern
(c) Escape
(d) Eat dinner

4. Where does the narrator spend most of her time in the country house?
(a) Walking along the garden pathways
(b) The back porch
(c) The nursery
(d) The baby’s room

5. What does the narrator think is happening to the wallpaper pattern at night?
(a) It is humming
(b) It is peeling itself off of the wall
(c) It is talking to her
(d) It is shaking

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What does the narrator think John is looking at when he is in the room?

4. What is torn off in patches in the country house?

5. Where doesn’t the narrator want to go at the end of the story?

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