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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 Mr. Hale say Mrs. Wright had responded when he asked "Ho' do, Mrs. Wright? It's cold, ain't it?"
(a) "Why's that?"
(b) "Depends who you ask."
(c) "Is it?"
(d) "Not for this time of year."

2. What does Mrs. Hale discover wrapped in a piece of silk in Mrs. Wright's things?
(a) A broken plate.
(b) A journal.
(c) A dead canary.
(d) A jar of preserves.

3. What is the title of the original newspaper article upon which A Jury of Her Peers is based?
(a) "Rural Homicide."
(b) "Death on the Farm."
(c) "Mrs. Wright Kills Husband."
(d) "The Hossack Murder."

4. In describing Mr. Wright, Mrs. Hale claims he was "like a raw wind that" what?
(a) "Give you frostbite."
(b) "Blows through the trees."
(c) "Gets into the bone."
(d) "Has no mercy."

5. What does Mrs. Peters reply when the county attorney asks the women, "have you decided whether she was going to quilt it or knot it?"
(a) Neither.
(b) Quilt it.
(c) Knot it.
(d) Both.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Mrs. Hale tells Mr. Henderson that she rarely visited the Wright home because it didn't seem very ________.

3. What had Mrs. Wright requested to be brought to her at the jail in addition to clothes?

4. What is Mrs. Hale's sister's name?

5. What does Mr. Hale go to look after while the sheriff and county attorney are finishing investigating?

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