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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the name of the county attorney?
(a) Henry Peters.
(b) John Wright.
(c) George Henderson.
(d) Lewis Hale.

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

3. What is half-sifted when Mrs. Hale departs her kitchen in the beginning of the story?
(a) Salt.
(b) Cocoa.
(c) Sugar.
(d) Flour.

4. The only unbroken jar of fruit in the cupboard is filled with ___________.
(a) Apples.
(b) Cherries.
(c) Blackberries.
(d) Pears.

5. Where had the sheriff sent someone "for that man who went crazy" yesterday in the story?
(a) Robin's Junction.
(b) Morris Center.
(c) Aurthur's Crossing.
(d) John's Ferry.

6. What had Mrs. Wright requested to be brought to her at the jail in addition to clothes?
(a) Shoes.
(b) A hacksaw.
(c) A sweater.
(d) An apron.

7. What color is the rocking chair in the Wrights' home?
(a) Blue.
(b) Green.
(c) Yellow.
(d) Red.

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

9. What is the setting of A Jury of Her Peers?
(a) Dickson County.
(b) Anderson County.
(c) Wright County.
(d) Jackson County.

10. According to Mr. Hale's story, Mrs. Wright was doing what to her apron when he visited?
(a) Sewing a patch on it.
(b) Ripping at it.
(c) Ironing it.
(d) Pleating it.

11. In what year did the Library of America select the original newspaper article upon which A Jury of Her Peers is based for inclusion in its two-century retrospective of American True Crime?
(a) 2005.
(b) 2003.
(c) 2002.
(d) 2008.

12. What word refers to lack of importance or consequence?
(a) Jubilation.
(b) Anarchy.
(c) Insignificance.
(d) Incognizance.

13. Mr. Wright is described socially as a man who _____________.
(a) Was always the center of attention.
(b) Always doted on his wife.
(c) Talked all the time.
(d) Didn't talk much.

14. The men reenter as Mrs. Hale is asking, "Do you suppose she was going to quilt it or just" what?
(a) Poke it.
(b) Knot it.
(c) Needle it.
(d) Stitch it.

15. How many women are waiting in the two-seated buggy when Mrs. Hale goes out to join them in the beginning of the story?
(a) Three.
(b) None.
(c) Two.
(d) One.

Short Answer Questions

1. To whom does Sheriff Peters ask Mr. Hale to explain what he'd seen the previous morning in the beginning of the story?

2. What did Mr. Hale think he heard someone say the second time he knocked on the Wright's door the previous day?

3. What is Mrs. Hale's response when Mrs. Peters says, "Of course we don't know who killed the bird"?

4. Who had the sheriff sent to make a fire at the Wright house that morning in the story?

5. Where was Mrs. Wright when Mr. Hale had entered the Wright house the previous day?

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