The Yellow Wallpaper

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

Why does the narrator rip the wallpaper off?

• Because it's ugly

• To replace it

• To annoy John

• To free the woman behind it

Who is the woman in the wallpaper?

• Jennie

• The narrator's child

• The narrator

• The narrator's imaginary friend

How would you describe the narrator's attitude towards her husband?

• Caring

• Jealous

• Defiant

• Submissive

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

The fact that the speaker's room was once a nursery and playroom reinforces her

• nervousness and hysteria

• role as a wife and mother

• childlike belief in a ghost

• dependence on her husband

Who said, "There is nothing so dangerous, so fascinating, to a temperament like yours. It is a false and foolish fancy. Can you not trust me as a physician when I tell you so?"

• Narrator

• John

• Mary

• Jennie

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

• Wallpaper

• Floor

• Lady

• House

The primary fixation for the narrator is

• the passage of people across the lawn

• the immovable bed

• the wallpaper

• John's reassurance