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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Detailed Summary & Analysis.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How did Mrs. Wright describe her sleeping habits to Mr. Hale?
(a) "I sleep fitfully."
(b) "I sleep light."
(c) "I sleep downstairs."
(d) "I sleep sound."

2. What does Mrs. Hale discover wrapped in a piece of silk in Mrs. Wright's things?
(a) A broken plate.
(b) A jar of preserves.
(c) A dead canary.
(d) A journal.

3. When talking with Mrs. Peters, Mrs. Hale claims, "If there had been years and years of -- nothing, then a bird to sing to you, it would be awful ____ after the bird was still."
(a) Still.
(b) Yet.
(c) Again.
(d) Lonesome.

4. When was John Hossack murdered?
(a) 1899.
(b) 1900.
(c) 1901.
(d) 1902.

5. What word means to find fault with (a person, group, etc.); blame; censure?
(a) Reproach.
(b) Heresy.
(c) Accuse.
(d) Condemn.

Short Answer Questions

1. When does Mrs. Hale recall having met Mrs. Peters previously in the beginning of the story?

2. When was the play Trifles first produced?

3. In what year did Susan Glaspell die?

4. Mrs. Peters nervously says to Mrs. Hale, "it's a good thing the men couldn't hear us! Getting all stirred up over a little thing like a" what?

5. Mr. Hale had come by the previous day to ask Mr. Wright if he wanted what installed?

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