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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Fill in the blank: It goes behind every piece of furniture, except the bed, a long, straight, even ________, as if it had been rubbed over and over.
(a) Vine
(b) Smooch
(c) Stripe
(d) Line

3. What does the narrator think about doing to the house “to reach the smell”?
(a) Burn the house down
(b) Wash all of the surfaces with ammonia
(c) Re-paint the house
(d) Re-furnishing the house

4. What does the narrator increasingly like about her bedroom?
(a) The desk at which she writes
(b) The bed
(c) The view of the gardens
(d) The wallpaper

5. The narrator believes that the wallpaper has a ________.
(a) Secret message
(b) Present for her
(c) Beautiful pattern
(d) Sub-design

Short Answer Questions

1. Jennie says what stains all of their clothing?

2. Who does the narrator want to help the woman in the wallpaper?

3. In the last paragraph, what does the narrator do?

4. John threatens to send the narrator to whom?

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

(see the answer key)

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