View a FREE sample

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) It is locked and there is no key
(b) It is stuck
(c) The narrator has the key and will not unlock it.
(d) The handle is broken

2. When does the narrator say the wallpaper becomes clearer?
(a) In the morning
(b) In the moonlight
(c) In the evening
(d) In the afternoon

3. What does John make the narrator drink as a cure?
(a) Milk
(b) Water
(c) Cod liver oil
(d) Green tea

4. What is the profession of the narrator’s husband?
(a) Writer
(b) Politician
(c) Physician
(d) Lawyer

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Jennie not realize that the narrator has?

2. In the first section, why does the protagonist’s narration suddenly end?

3. What does the housekeeper think has made the narrator sick?

4. What does John force the narrator to do after every meal?

5. What figure becomes very clear in moonlight, clearer than before: “plain as can be.”

(see the answer key)

This section contains 217 words (approx. 1 page at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample