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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Mrs. Peters claim cats are, when talking with Mr. Henderson?
(a) Superstitious.
(b) Born hunters.
(c) Nocturnal.
(d) Murderous.

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) Want to leave.
(b) Almost sick.
(c) Almost turn blue.
(d) Want to throw up.

3. What was Mrs. Wright's response when Mr. Hale asked her, "Who did this, Mrs. Wright?"
(a) "I did it."
(b) "My son did it."
(c) "A burglar did it."
(d) "I don't know."

4. Mrs. Hale recalled that upon meeting Mrs. Peters the first time she didn't seem like _____________.
(a) A sheriff's wife.
(b) A mormon.
(c) A mother.
(d) A republican.

5. How did Mrs. Wright describe her sleeping habits to Mr. Hale?
(a) "I sleep downstairs."
(b) "I sleep fitfully."
(c) "I sleep light."
(d) "I sleep sound."

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Mrs. Hale begin to arrange after the men exit upstairs?

2. Mr. Hale tells the sheriff that he had been going to town the previous morning with whom?

3. The county attorney asserts that there is "no sign at all of anyone having" what?

4. What did Mrs. Hale feel she should take her hand off of once the men reentered, but found herself unable to do so?

5. What does Mr. Hale tell the county attorney his first thought was, upon seeing Mr. Wright?

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