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

3. Who faints at the end of the story?
(a) The narrator
(b) Weir Mitchell
(c) Jennie
(d) John

4. The narrator follows what/whom?
(a) The wallpaper’s pattern around the room
(b) John around the gardens
(c) Her son around the house
(d) A horse in the field

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

6. In the first section, why does the protagonist’s narration suddenly end?
(a) She falls asleep
(b) Her husband is coming
(c) She has nothing else to say
(d) She is out of paper

7. Why can’t the figure in the pattern escape?
(a) She can’t find her way out
(b) She needs the narrator to help her
(c) She doesn’t really want to escape
(d) The pattern would strangle her

8. 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-furnishing the house
(d) Re-paint the house

9. Where does the narrator plan to go at nightfall, describing that it will be difficult to do?
(a) Home to her apartment in the country
(b) Into the wallpaper
(c) The garden
(d) The nursery

10. How long is John gone for toward the end of the story?
(a) One month
(b) One week
(c) One hour
(d) One night

11. Who does the narrator become afraid of?
(a) The baby
(b) Mother
(c) Jennie
(d) John

12. What does the narrator “securely fasten” herself with?
(a) Restrictive clothing
(b) The drapery
(c) A rope
(d) The bed sheets

13. Who does the narrator say is her one comfort?
(a) Jennie
(b) The baby
(c) John
(d) Mother

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

15. Who or what does think is shaking the wallpaper?
(a) The yellow color
(b) The pattern
(c) The woman
(d) The bars