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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When alone with Mrs. Peters, Mrs. Hale asks, "I wonder how it would seem never to have had any" what?
(a) "Contact with the world."
(b) "Company."
(c) "Children around."
(d) "Dogs around"

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

3. Mrs. Hale describes Minnie Foster as having been _________ 20 years ago.
(a) Strange.
(b) Lively.
(c) Conservative.
(d) Depressive.

4. Who asks the county attorney near the end of the story, "Did you want to see what Mrs. Peters was going to take in?"
(a) Mrs. Hale.
(b) Sheriff Peters.
(c) Mr. Hale.
(d) Minnie Foster.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. To whose house did Harry go to use the telephone the previous day?

2. For what does Mrs. Hale repeatedly blame herself in the story?

3. Where do the women go to get things to take to Mrs. Wright?

4. What does Mrs. Hale absentmindedly begin to do with the ill-stitched block of quilting?

5. In what grammatical tense is A Jury of Her Peers written?

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