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 believe cultivates deceit?
(a) Lying awake during the sanctioned naptimes
(b) Watching the wallpaper
(c) Eating sweets when no one is looking
(d) Writing in her journal

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

3. Fill in the blank: As she is peeling the wallpaper off, she thinks that the pattern of heads and bulbous eyes are “shrieking with _________”?
(a) Hysterics
(b) Laughter
(c) Derision
(d) Anguish

4. Who does the narrator think she sees creeping outside her windows?
(a) Mary
(b) Jennie
(c) The woman in the wallpaper
(d) John

5. Where does her shoulder “just” fit?
(a) In the hole in the wall
(b) Out the window
(c) In the long smooch along the wall
(d) In a nook in the corner

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What color stains does Jennie find on their clothing?

3. Who is the housekeeper?

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

5. The narrator describes the wallpaper having a recurrent spot where the pattern lolls like a broken neck and _____________

(see the answer key)

This section contains 234 words (approx. 1 page at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample