View a FREE sample

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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who faints at the end of the story?
(a) Jennie
(b) Weir Mitchell
(c) John
(d) The narrator

2. What does the narrator try - but fails – to move?
(a) The bed
(b) The desk
(c) The chair
(d) The lamp

3. The narrator believes that the wallpaper has a(n) _________.
(a) A stain
(b) An odor
(c) A feeling
(d) An alibi

4. Who does the narrator want to help the woman in the wallpaper?
(a) Herself
(b) Jennie
(c) John
(d) Mary

5. Why does the unnamed protagonist believe that she and her husband were able to rent the mansion for the summer?
(a) They were evicted from their city home
(b) They received an inheritance
(c) Because it is haunted
(d) Because her husband needs to visit for work

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Why does the narrator stop looking out the windows?

3. When the narrator makes the plan to get off the wallpaper before John notices, how long do they have left at the house?

4. Where does her shoulder “just” fit?

5. What does the narrator think is happening to the wallpaper pattern at night?

(see the answer key)

This section contains 258 words (approx. 1 page at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample