The Yellow Wallpaper Quiz

The speaker's husband is best described as

• controlling and practical
• loving and thoughtful
• skilled and sarcastic 
• cold and serious

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What is John's profession, which influences his treatment of the narrator?

• A teacher

• A doctor

• A lawyer

• An artist

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What does the narrator say about John's knowledge of her suffering?

• He understands it

• He is unaware

• He knows but dismisses it

• He empathizes with it.

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The narrator describes the wallpaper as having a pattern that is:

• Simple and clear

• Pointless and confusing

• Beautiful and artistic

• Colorful and bright

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The narrator describes the pattern as having a peculiar characteristic. What is it?

• It changes with the light

• It is always the same

• It is invisible

• It is colorful

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What does the narrator believe she sees behind the wallpaper pattern?

• A garden

• A woman trapped

• A beautiful landscape

• A hidden message

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How does the narrator feel about the room she is staying in?

• She finds it comforting and cozy

• She feels trapped and uneasy

• She thinks it is luxurious and spacious

• She feels indifferent about it

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What does the narrator's action of peeling off the wallpaper suggest about her mental state?

• A) She is calm and collected.

• B) She is becoming more obsessed.

• C) She is feeling relaxed.

• D) She is indifferent.

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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 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 is 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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Which examples of diction help illustrate the narrator's increasingly anxious, deteriorating mental state?

• "Beautiful," "ornate," "ancestral"

• "darling" "little girl" "silly goose"

• "Delicious garden," "grape-covered arbors"

• "Creeping," "writhing," and an increase in sentences with exclamation points.

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