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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Mr. Hale's response when asked the question of Mrs. Wright, "How did she seem to feel about your coming?"
(a) "Well, she asked me to stay for tea."
(b) "Why, I don't think she minded -- one way or other."
(c) "She seemed agitated that I was there."
(d) "Why, she jumped up and ran from the room."

2. Mrs. Wright's shawl always hangs on what?
(a) The closet door.
(b) The coat rack.
(c) The cupboard door.
(d) The stair door.

3. What is Mrs. Hale's first name?
(a) Cassandra.
(b) Minnie.
(c) Connie.
(d) Martha.

4. When was Susan Glaspell born?
(a) 1891.
(b) 1876.
(c) 1869.
(d) 1893.

5. Mrs. Hale tells Mrs. Peters, "I sew awful queer sometimes when I'm" what?
(a) "Angry."
(b) "Lazy."
(c) "Just tired."
(d) "Preoccupied."

6. What is Mrs. Hale's sister's name?
(a) Heidi.
(b) Bessie.
(c) Samantha.
(d) Jennifer.

7. 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?
(a) "Lack of loneliness."
(b) "Mere boredom."
(c) "Lack of life."
(d) "Companionship."

8. Where did Glaspell study for one semester of graduate school?
(a) University of San Francisco.
(b) University of Chicago.
(c) University of Phoenix.
(d) University of Miami.

9. For what does Mrs. Hale repeatedly blame herself in the story?
(a) Not adopting the bird.
(b) Spreading rumors about Mrs. Wright.
(c) Not visiting Mrs. Wright.
(d) Spreading rumors about Mr. Wright.

10. To whom does Sheriff Peters ask Mr. Hale to explain what he'd seen the previous morning in the beginning of the story?
(a) Mrs. Peters.
(b) Mr. Henderson.
(c) Minnie Foster.
(d) Mrs. Hale.

11. What does Mrs. Hale suddenly become worried about regarding her son in the beginning of the story?
(a) Whether the car made it to town.
(b) Whether he's safe in the jail.
(c) Whether he turned the lights off.
(d) Whether he's dressed warmly enough.

12. In telling his story to the sheriff and county attorney, Mr. Hale remarks that he "didn't know as what his wife wanted" _____________.
(a) "Made much difference to John."
(b) "As she was very quiet."
(c) "Intrigued John."
(d) "Though John wanted to."

13. What is Sheriff Peters' first name?
(a) Lewis.
(b) George.
(c) Henry.
(d) John.

14. Who went on trial for the murder of John Hossack?
(a) Mary Hossack.
(b) Margaret Hossack.
(c) Minnie Hossack.
(d) Martha Hossack.

15. In her despair, Mrs. Hail says, "I tell you, it's queer, Mrs. Peters. We live close together, and we" what?
(a) "Never see each other."
(b) "Run into each other once."
(c) "Live far apart."
(d) "Are far too close."

Short Answer Questions

1. 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."

2. What had Mr. Hale been going to town to sell the previous morning?

3. When alone with Mrs. Peters, Mrs. Hale asks, "I wonder how it would seem never to have had any" what?

4. What is the setting of A Jury of Her Peers?

5. What novelist and playwright did Susan Glaspell marry?

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