View a FREE sample

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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. The story covers the span of what season?
(a) Spring
(b) Fall
(c) Winter
(d) Summer

3. What does the housekeeper think has made the narrator sick?
(a) Lyme disease
(b) Writing
(c) Reading
(d) Childbirth

4. Who is the author of The Yellow Wallpaper?
(a) Jane Austen
(b) Barbara Kingsolver
(c) Charlotte Perkins Gilman
(d) Emily Bronte

5. In what genre would this story be categorized?
(a) A novella
(b) An article
(c) A personal essay
(d) A novel

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the narrator say she watches always?

2. Why does the unnamed protagonist believe that she and her husband were able to rent the mansion for the summer?

3. At the climax of the story, who does the narrator think that she has become?

4. How does the narrator describe the wallpaper’s smell?

5. What does the narrator increasingly like about her bedroom?

(see the answer key)

This section contains 211 words (approx. 1 page at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample