The Yellow Wallpaper Quiz

4. What theme is explored through the narrator’s lack of autonomy?
8. What literary device is heavily used to represent the narrator’s mental state?
11. What large, immovable furniture piece is in the room?
15. What treatment is prescribed to the narrator?
17. What sensory detail about the wallpaper disturbs the narrator?
18. What does the narrator secretly write in?
19. What outdated medical diagnosis might John believe the narrator suffers from?
21. When does the woman behind the wallpaper seem most active?
23. What happens to the wallpaper by the end of the story?
24. What name is possibly revealed as the narrator’s at the end?
25. What does the woman in the wallpaper appear to do?
27. What condition is the narrator likely suffering from after childbirth?

1. What mental symptom does the narrator experience as her obsession grows?
2. What feature of the wallpaper fascinates the narrator?
3. What does the narrator claim to have achieved at the end?
5. Who is John’s sister that helps care for the narrator?
6. What object in the room becomes an obsession for the narrator?
7. How are the windows in the narrator’s room secured?
9. What color is the wallpaper?
10. What type of house do they rent for the summer?
12. How would you describe John’s attitude toward his wife’s thoughts and feelings?
13. What condition worsens the narrator’s mental health throughout the story?
14. What modern term describes how John dismisses and invalidates the narrator’s feelings?
16. What does John do at the end of the story?
20. What is the name of the narrator’s husband?
22. What societal issue does the story critique through the narrator’s confinement?
23. How does the narrator describe the woman in the wallpaper?
26. What was the room originally used as?