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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Mrs. Wright's shawl always hangs on what?
(a) The coat rack.
(b) The stair door.
(c) The cupboard door.
(d) The closet door.

2. Why is Mr. Henderson unable to dry his hands after washing them in the sink?
(a) The towels are wet in the sink.
(b) Mrs. Hale has the towels.
(c) There are no towels.
(d) The hand-towels are dirty.

3. Who had the sheriff sent to make a fire at the Wright house that morning in the story?
(a) His deputy.
(b) The District Attorney.
(c) An inmate.
(d) His wife.

4. Who had the sheriff sent off "for that man who went crazy" yesterday in the story?
(a) William.
(b) Frank.
(c) Roger.
(d) Carl.

5. Of the boy who killed Mrs. Peters' kitten as a child, she says, "If they hadn't held me back I would have" what?
(a) "Killed him."
(b) "Hurt him."
(c) "Gouged his eyes."
(d) "Stopped him."

Short Answer Questions

1. To what road did Harry go to use the telephone the previous day?

2. 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?

3. In the actual murder case upon which A Jury of Her Peers is based, John Hossack was killed with what weapon?

4. Who has been murdered in A Jury of Her Peers?

5. Of Mrs. Hale, Susan Glaspell writes, "the fact that she had lived neighbor to that girl for twenty years, and had let her die for" what was more than she could bear?

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