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- 1. Multiple Choice
What is john's profession?
Writer
Lawyer
Dentist
Physician
- 2. Multiple Choice
What is the narrator's brother's profession?
Writer
Physician
Lawyer
Dentist
- 3. Multiple Choice
To what physician does John at one point threaten to send the narrator?
Horace Scudder
Weir Mitchell
Her father
Her brother
- 4. Multiple Choice
The story is written from this point of view
1st person
3rd person limited
3rd person objective
3rd person omniscient
- 5. Multiple Choice
To improve the narrator's health, her family decides to...
Rent a home in the country
Eat more vegetables
Get plenty of exercise
Pray regularly
- 6. Multiple Choice
The character that tends to make the important decisions is...
Jane
Joan
John
Jenny
- 7. Multiple ChoiceThe speaker most desiresa room with chintz hangingsthe opportunity to writecongenial companyfreedom to follow her own desires
- 8. Multiple ChoiceBecause she is ______, the narrator tells John about her fear, but John ______ at her.Afraid, LaughsHappy, yellsSad, LaughsHappy, Screams
- 9. Multiple Choice
"The Yellow Wallpaper":
Gradually she begins to notice how ugly the _______ is and she wants to move rooms.
Wallpaper
Floor
Lady
House
- 10. Multiple ChoiceWho said, "There is nothing so dangerous, so fascinating, to a temperament like yours. It is a false and foolish fancy. Can you not trust me as a physician when I tell you so?"NarratorJohnMaryJennie
- 11. Multiple ChoiceThe primary fixation for the narrator isthe passage of people across the lawnthe immovable bedthe wallpaperJohn's reassurance
- 12. Multiple ChoiceThe speaker's husband is best described ascontrolling and practicalloving and thoughtfulskilled and sarcasticcold and serious
- 13. Multiple ChoiceInstead of arguing any more, she writes her thoughts of the ugly room in her _____ journalSecretUglyTerrifyingRevealed
- 14. Multiple Choice
What actions of the narrator show that her mental state is beginning to deteriorate?
A. Her focus on finding a purpose to the pattern in the wallpaper
B. Her determination to open the bars on her windows and escape
C. Her obsessive fascination with the
D. Her clawing and scratching on the doors of her room
- 15. Multiple Choice
The narrator of "The Yellow Wallpaper" 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?
A. That she really does prefer a room on a higher floor of the house
B. That she is secretly planning to jump from one of the higher windows
C. That she is used to doing what her husband thinks is right
D. That she wants to find the pattern in the room's wallpaper
- 16. Multiple Choice
What happened to John at the end of story?
He cleaned the woman's mess
He made a meal
He fainted
The woman killed him
- 17. Multiple Choice
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
- 18. Multiple Choice
What did the narrator see in the wallpaper
Herself
Her husband
A women creeping
A ghost
- 19. Multiple Choice
The fact that the speaker's room was once a nursery and playroom reinforces her
nervousness and hysteria
role as a wife and mother
childlike belief in a ghost
dependence on her husband
- 20. Multiple Choice
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
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