The Yellow Wallpaper Quiz

Example Questions From the Test

• 3In 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
• 4What 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
• 5Yellow 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