This document contains a 10 question quiz about the short story "The Yellow Wallpaper" by Charlotte Perkins Gilman. The questions assess the reader's understanding of key plot points and themes in the story, including the narrator's obsession with the wallpaper pattern in her room, her husband John's restrictive "rest cure" treatment for her nervous condition, and themes of women's roles and mental health in the late 19th century.

1. The Yellow Wallpaper Quiz
1. Why does John laugh at the narrator?
a. She asks questions about the new house.
b. He does not believe that she is sick.
c. She has a feeling that the house is haunted.
d. He wants her to feel better and be happy.
2. John’s cure for the narrator’s illness is for her to
a. Write down all her feelings
b. Do only a little housework
c. Spend all her time outdoors
d. Rest and avoid all work
3. What does this except tell you about the first-person narrator?
“I don’t want to leave now until I have found it out. There is a week more, and I think that will be enough.”
a. She is obsessed with the wallpaper.
b. She thinks the paper will cure her.
c. She is afraid John will solve the puzzle.
d. She has come to like the house.
4. What does the woman in the wallpaper tell you about the social context of the late 1800s?
a. Women disliked living in houses with wallpaper.
b. Husbands’ rules made some women feeltrapped.
c. Husbands could not really love their wives.
d. Women’s sicknesses controlled their minds.
5. The narrator throws the key from the window so that
a. No one can get into the room
b. She can burn down the house
c. Jennie will have to knock
d. She can get some rest
6. Writing is difficult for the narrator because she
a. Is feeling too weak from an illness
b. Fears a loss of her self-control
c. Finds it hard to keep her writing secret
d. Is absorbed by her baby
7. The wallpaper pattern that traps the creeping woman represents the
a. Writing that the narrator hides from her family
b. Rules that everyone expects the narrator to follow
c. Road that the narrator sees from the windows
d. Nervous illness that has weakened the narrator
8. Is the narrator reliable or unreliable? Explain with at least 2 examples from the text.
9. What are two details about the bedroom other than the wallpaper?
10. How would the story be different if it was not in first person point-of-view?