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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where was Susan Glaspell born?
(a) Davenport, Iowa.
(b) Spearfish, South Dakota.
(c) Missoula, Montana.
(d) Bismarck, North Dakota.

2. The majority of the action in A Jury of Her Peers takes place in what room of the house?
(a) The bathroom.
(b) The kitchen.
(c) The living room.
(d) The bedroom.

3. What does Mr. Hale go to look after while the sheriff and county attorney are finishing investigating?
(a) The chickens.
(b) The pigs.
(c) The horses.
(d) The cows.

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

5. 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) Want to throw up.
(d) Almost turn blue.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did the murder trial of John Hossack take place?

2. Where do the men go to investigate after returning from upstairs?

3. Mrs. Hale tells Mrs. Peters, "I sew awful queer sometimes when I'm" what?

4. The county attorney states near the end of the story that "a sheriff's wife is married to" what?

5. What item makes Mrs. Hale nervous when the county attorney takes it out while listening to Mr. Hale's story?

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