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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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) 2002.
(b) 2003.
(c) 2005.
(d) 2008.

2. In what narrative mode is A Jury of Her Peers written?
(a) Second person.
(b) Fourth person.
(c) First person.
(d) Third person.

3. Mrs. Hale tells Mr. Henderson that she rarely visited the Wright home because it didn't seem very ________.
(a) Motherly.
(b) Expensive.
(c) Cheerful.
(d) Clean.

4. Where do the men go to investigate first after leaving the women in the kitchen?
(a) Downstairs.
(b) Upstairs.
(c) Into the yard.
(d) Into the nursery.

5. What does Mrs. Hale begin to arrange after the men exit upstairs?
(a) Papers.
(b) Preserves.
(c) Quilts.
(d) Dirty pans.

Short Answer Questions

1. What color is Mrs. Wright's shawl?

2. What word means to find fault with (a person, group, etc.); blame; censure?

3. When alone with Mrs. Peters, Mrs. Hale asks, "I wonder how it would seem never to have had any" what?

4. Mrs. Hale is startled by hearing Mrs. Peters say: "A person gets discouraged -- and loses" what?

5. What does the county attorney say is "the thing we need" before exiting with the men to investigate?

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