The Yellow Wallpaper

Who wrote "The Yellow Wallpaper" (1892)?

• Virginia Woolf

• Silas Weir Mitchell

• Charlotte Perkins Gilman

• Hattie Strong

What does the speaker's husband tell her family?

• She is very ill

• There is nothing wrong with her

• He's leaving her

• He won't allow them to see her

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2b. The narrator of "The Yellow Wallpaper" agrees to stay in the top-floor room, even though she would prefer a room downstairs, because her husband says it's best for her. What can be the reader reasonably infer from this about the narrator?

• A. That she really does prefer a room on a higher floor of the house

• B. That she is secretly planning to jump from one of the higher windows

• C. That she id used to doing what her husband thinks is right

• D. That she wants to find the pattern in the room's wallpaper

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What did the speaker do to the wallpaper?

• She ripped it

• She ate it

• Nothing

• She drew on it

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Why does the speaker need a rope?

• To learn to tie a shoe

• To tie up the woman in the wallpaper

• For Halloween decorations

• To kill herself

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What did the speaker do with the key

• She swallowed it

• She hid it under the bed

• She made a necklace out of it

• She threw it out the window

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What happened to John at the end of story?

• He cleaned the woman's mess

• He made a meal

• He fainted

• The woman killed him

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Which of the following did Charlotte Gilman Perkins and her Narrator in "The Yellow Wallpaper" NOT have in common?

• was diagnosed with cancer

• Had to undergo rest cure

• Had an unequal marriage

• Were suspected to have a nervous disorder

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What neurologist is famous for his/her controversial treatment of men and women with the Rest Cure?

• Charlotte Perkins Gilman

• Hattie Strong

• William Dean Howells

• Weir Mitchell

What was expected of women during the Victorian era?

• to be treated with contempt, groveling, controlled, and disposable

• to be treated as equals, hard workers, politically involved, and outspoken.

• to be bold, tenacious, dominating, and boisterous

• to be pure, pious, domestic, and submissive