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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why can’t the door to the nursery be opened?
(a) The narrator has the key and will not unlock it.
(b) It is locked and there is no key
(c) It is stuck
(d) The handle is broken

2. The narrator gets up in the middle of the night to do what?
(a) Get a drink of water
(b) Feed her baby
(c) Run away
(d) Feel if the wallpaper is moving

3. What does Jennie not realize that the narrator has?
(a) Food
(b) A chain
(c) A rope
(d) A knife

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

5. In the last paragraph, what does the narrator do?
(a) Leave the room and walk out into the dark night
(b) Call for help
(c) Walk over John who is in her path
(d) Cry

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does John ask to give a report about the narrator’s wellbeing?

2. What year was this story published?

3. The narrator believes that the wallpaper has a(n) _________.

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

5. Who does the narrator say is her one comfort?

(see the answer key)

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