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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Mrs. Hale begin to arrange after the men exit upstairs?
(a) Quilts.
(b) Papers.
(c) Preserves.
(d) Dirty pans.

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

3. What kind of weapon was in the Wrights' house but wasn't used on Mr. Wright?
(a) A rope.
(b) A dagger.
(c) A gun.
(d) A machete.

4. Mrs. Hale states to Mrs. Peters, "The law is the law -- and a bad" what?
(a) "Law is a bad law."
(b) "Man is a bad man."
(c) "Woman is a bad woman."
(d) "Stove is a bad stove."

5. Where was Mrs. Wright when Mr. Hale had entered the Wright house the previous day?
(a) At the kitchen table.
(b) In the rocking chair.
(c) In the kitchen.
(d) Sleeping in bed.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Mrs. Peters say she and her husband had homesteaded before living here?

2. Of Mrs. Hale, Susan Glaspell writes, "the fact that she had lived neighbor to that girl for twenty years, and had let her die for" what was more than she could bear?

3. Susan Glaspell wrote A Jury of Her Peers based on the Hossack murder which she discovered working as _____________.

4. What is Mrs. Hale's first name?

5. When the women are alone, Mrs. Peters tells Mrs. Hale, "Mr. Henderson is awful ______ in a speech."

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