The Yellow Wallpaper

This flexible-use quiz is designed for reading comprehension assessment and activity needs in classroom, home-schooling and other settings. Questions connect to the text’s plot, characters, and themes — and align with the content and chapter organization in the rest of this study guide. Use quizzes as pre-reading hooks, reading checks, discussion starters, entrance/exit “tickets,” small group activities, writing activities, and lessons on finding evidence and support in a text.

Depth of Knowledge Levels: Questions require respondents to demonstrate ability to: 

1. Recall and Understand Content (e.g., who, what, where, when) 
2. Apply and Analyze Ideas (e.g., how and why)

1. Early on in the story, John laughs at the narrator’s uneasiness about the house they are renting. What is the narrator’s response?

A) She feels belittled and tells him so.

B) She is unsurprised and resigned to being laughed at.

C) She resents his laughter and mentally adds it to her list of marital grievances.

D) She becomes upset and collapses into melodramatic sadness.

2. Which of the following best describes why the narrator’s husband is an impediment to her getting better?

A) He is rarely at home to see her.

B) He is preoccupied with their new baby.

C) His confidence in his authority as a doctor blinds him to her worsening state.

D) He provides her with all that she needs, so she is not motivated to try to get better.