WorksheetsThe Yellow Wallpaper Quiz
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 20mins
The narrator describes the house as everything EXCEPT
haunted
a heredity estate
a country estate
a mental hospital
The main character’s husband and brother work as
College professors
Physicians
Policemen
Judges
What was expected of women during the Victorian era?
to be pure, domestic, and submissive
to be treated as equals, hard workers, politically involved, and outspoken.
to be bold, tenacious, dominating, and boisterous
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.
Serious and cold
controlling and practical
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.
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.
Because she is ______, the narrator tells John , but John ______ at her.
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
The fact that the speaker's room was once a nursery and playroom reinforces
her hysteria.
the idea that she is not fulfilling the role of wife or mother.
her desire to write her thoughts down.
her husband's notion that she be treated like a child.
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
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.
The repetition of the word "personally" in the text demonstrates the
speaker's nervous tick.
audience's role as readers.
contrast with her husband's opinions.
self-centered nature of women.
What does John frequently call the narrator?
Small
Petite
Tiny
Little
When is the woman most visible in the wallpaper?
In the sunlight
In the afternoon
By moonlight
At noon
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"
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.
Check the ways that the narrator is imprisoned literally (two answers).
She is imprisoned by bars on the windows.
She is locked in her room.
Her bed is bolted to the floor.
She isn’t allowed to go anywhere or visit with anyone.
Check the ways that the narrator is imprisoned figuratively (multiple answers).
She is figuratively imprisoned by her mind,
She is figuratively imprisoned by her marriage,
She is figuratively imprisoned by society,
She is figuratively imprisoned by her husband
"The Yellow Wallpaper" deals with the themes of
Patriarchy and the subjugation of women
the struggle for women's rights
the stigma of mental illness
all of the above
