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Worksheets"The Yellow Wallpaper"
Total questions: 15
Worksheet time: 11mins
What was your reaction to reading "The Yellow Wallpaper?"
Draw what you think the yellow wallpaper looks like!
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.
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, brother, and family do not 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.
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.
When is the woman most visible in the wallpaper?
In the sunlight
In the afternoon
By moonlight
At noon
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 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 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
Who is the woman in the wallpaper?
Jennie
The narrator's child
The narrator
Mary
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.
