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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Mrs. Hale's last line in the story?
(a) "We call it -- knot it, Mr. Henderson."
(b) "Minnie Wright is innocent."
(c) "Trifles are what men are."
(d) "We call it - stitch it, Mr. Henderson."

2. Before Mr. Hale began his story, he looked "as if standing in that kitchen and having to tell what he had seen there yesterday morning made him" ____________.
(a) Almost sick.
(b) Want to leave.
(c) Almost turn blue.
(d) Want to throw up.

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

4. What does Mrs. Peters say Mrs. Wright was frightened of in her house the previous day?
(a) Her husband.
(b) Her bird.
(c) A spider.
(d) Her cat.

5. What is the name of Mrs. Hale's eldest son?
(a) Paul.
(b) Henry.
(c) Harry.
(d) Peter.

Short Answer Questions

1. When Mrs. Peters asks if Mrs. Wright had a bird, Mrs. Hale replies that there was a man in town selling what the year before?

2. Mrs. Wright's shawl always hangs on what?

3. What theater troupe, of which Glaspell was a member, produced a one-act play with the same plot as A Jury of Her Peers?

4. Where had the sheriff sent someone "for that man who went crazy" yesterday in the story?

5. What does the sheriff suggest Mr. Henderson look at with him before leaving?

Short Essay Questions

1. What leads the women to discover the pretty box in Mrs. Wright's sewing basket?

2. What does Mrs. Hale regard of Mrs. Wright's clothing in the narrative?

3. How does Mrs. Peters describe her understanding of stillness in the narrative?

4. How does Sheriff Peters begin the investigation after arriving at the Wright home? What does Mr. Henderson interrupt to ask?

5. What condescending comments are made of the women as the men disappear upstairs?

6. What close call do the women face in the climax of the story regarding the evidence?

7. What does Mr. Hale respond when questioned about how Mrs. Wright appeared when he'd arrived the previous day?

8. What leads Mrs. Hale to the conclusion that Mr. Wright killed the bird?

9. When does Mrs. Hale ask Mrs. Peters her opinion on the guilt of Mrs. Wright? What is her reply?

10. What leads Mr. Henderson to the conclusion that Mrs. Wright is a bad housekeeper?

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