The Yellow Wallpaper Quiz
Questions: 16 · 10 minutes
1. A physician tells a patient to avoid work, writing, and mental stimulation while remaining largely isolated. Which treatment from the story does this most closely resemble?
The rest cure imposed on the narrator
A program of gradual exposure to ordinary routines
A supervised course of artistic therapy
A regimen of travel and outdoor exercise
2. The narrator first watches a woman behind the pattern and later describes herself creeping during the day. What development does this sequence most strongly show?
Her identification with the woman in the wallpaper is intensifying
She has discovered another resident hiding in the mansion
She is imitating Jennie’s method of cleaning the room
She is preparing to leave John without being noticed
3. In what form is the story primarily presented?
Letters exchanged between John and another doctor
First-person journal-like entries written by the narrator
A medical report written after the family leaves
A third-person account centered on Jennie
4. What happens when John finally enters the locked room and sees the narrator near the end?
He tears down the remaining wallpaper with her
He faints in her path
He calls Jennie to restrain her
He immediately leaves to summon another physician
5. Yellow marks appear on the narrator’s and John’s clothing. What is the most direct explanation supported by the story?
Pollen from the garden is entering through the windows
Contact with the wallpaper is rubbing off its color
The room’s old curtains are shedding dyed fibers
Medicine stored in the room has spilled onto their clothes
6. Who is Jennie?
A former patient who lived in the upstairs room
The narrator’s childhood friend and confidante
Mary’s sister, who comes to care for the baby
John’s sister, who helps manage the household
7. A long rubbed mark circles the room near the floor and later fits the narrator’s shoulder as she moves along the wall. What does this detail imply?
Jennie scrubs the same strip of wallpaper each morning
John drags the bed around the room while she sleeps
Children once measured their height along the wall
Repeated creeping around the room has produced or deepened the mark
8. Which unsettling quality of the wallpaper seems to follow the narrator beyond the room?
A rustling sound that resembles whispered speech
A distinctive yellow smell that seems to spread everywhere
A flickering light that changes with the weather
A sticky residue that appears on household objects
9. After John collapses, how does the narrator respond?
She continues creeping and passes over him each time around the room
She escapes through the bedroom window
She stops and tries to revive him
She hides her journal before Jennie arrives
10. Where does most of the story take place?
A city hospital where the narrator is receiving treatment
The narrator’s permanent home near John’s medical office
A seaside hotel where John attends a conference
A rented country mansion occupied for the summer
11. Why does the narrator often conceal her writing?
She intends to surprise John by publishing a novel
She fears the landlord will charge her for using the room
Jennie has forbidden anyone from using paper in the house
John disapproves and believes writing will hinder her recovery
12. Who is John in relation to the narrator?
Her brother and legal guardian
Her landlord and employer
Her husband and physician
Her cousin and former fiancé
13. Who wrote “The Yellow Wallpaper”?
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Kate Chopin
Edith Wharton
Louisa May Alcott
14. The upstairs room has barred windows, rings in the walls, a damaged floor, and a heavy bed. What past use does the narrator consider most likely?
It served as a private medical treatment room
It was used as servants’ sleeping quarters
It was a nursery and later a playroom or gymnasium
It functioned as the mansion’s formal guest chamber
15. Who takes care of the narrator’s baby while the narrator is unwell?
Jennie
John’s mother
Mary
The mansion’s owner
16. How does moonlight change the narrator’s perception of the wallpaper?
It makes the yellow color appear white and harmless
It reveals writing left by a former resident
It makes the outer pattern look like bars with a woman behind them
It causes the pattern to disappear completely