The Yellow Wallpaper Quiz

What is the remedy for the narrator's temporary nervous depression according to John and her brother?

• More stimulation: The narrator should be around people that excite her and make her have fun.

• Medication cure: the narrator will be given lots of different tonics until she is better.

• Resting cure: She must rest as much as she can and cannot do any work.

• The work cure: The narrator should focus on fulfilling her duties as a woman and take care of her child and all of the household cleaning.

Because she is ______, the narrator tells John , but John ______ at her.

• Afraid, Laughs
• Happy, yells
• Sad, Laughs
• Happy, Screams

Even though her husband doesn’t want her to, the main character spends time

• Talking with her sister on the phone

• Gossiping with the neighbors through the fence

• Secretly writing in her journal

• Praying on her knees by the bed.

The narrator 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

What does the narrator see behind the wallpaper pattern?

• A young child who is playing with gymnastic equipment.

• A baby searching for his mother.

• A woman who is smiling and content with her life.

• A woman who is skulking and creeping around the room.

How does the narrator describe the odor of the wallpaper?

• As a " yellow smell"

• As a "wallpaper-like smell"

• As a "banana smell"

• As a "lemony smell"

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

At the end of the story, John is overcome with what he sees in his wife's room. How does he react?

• He faints.

• He laughs.

• He admits he was wrong.

• He becomes violent towards her.

The speaker's husband is best described as

• Serious and cold

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

How does John generally treat his wife?

• As someone who needs to be taken care of.

• As someone to be respected.

• As his sister.

• As an equal partner.