Yellow Wallpaper

Why does the narrator rip the wallpaper off?

• Because it's ugly

• To replace it

• To annoy John

• To free the woman behind it

What does the narrator see behind the wallpaper?

• A woman

• A bear

• A spider

• John

The narrator goes from hating the wallpaper to...

• hating it ever more

• obsessing over it

• finding it mildly attractive

• not caring about it

Who is the woman in the wallpaper?

• Jennie

• The narrator's child

• The narrator

• The narrator's imaginary friend

Gradually she begins to notice how ugly the _______ is and she wants to move rooms.

• Wallpaper

• Floor

• Lady

• House

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The primary fixation for the narrator is

• the passage of people across the lawn

• the immovable bed

• the wallpaper

• John's reassurance

What actions of the narrator show that her mental state is beginning to deteriorate?

• Her focus on finding a purpose to the pattern in the wallpaper

• Her determination to open the bars on her windows and escape

• Her obsessive fascination with the

• Her clawing and scratching on the doors of her room

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?

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

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

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

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

Why does the narrator tear the wallpaper off of the walls?

• She couldn't take it anymore

• It was the only way John would let her out

• The wallpaper is too ugly

• To free the lady in the wallpaper

To what physician does John at one point threaten to send the narrator?

• Horace Scudder

• Weir Mitchell

• Her father

• Her brother