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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Susan Glaspell wrote A Jury of Her Peers based on the Hossack murder which she discovered working as _____________.
(a) A journalist.
(b) A judge.
(c) A lawyer.
(d) An actress.

2. 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) Minnie Foster.
(b) Mrs. Hale.
(c) Sheriff Peters.
(d) Mr. Hale.

3. How many women are waiting in the two-seated buggy when Mrs. Hale goes out to join them in the beginning of the story?
(a) Two.
(b) One.
(c) Three.
(d) None.

4. Mrs. Hale catches sight of an opened bucket of _________ on a low shelf in the kitchen.
(a) Flour.
(b) Honey.
(c) Sugar.
(d) Rice.

5. How many men are waiting in the two-seated buggy when Mrs. Hale goes out to join them in the beginning of the story?
(a) Five.
(b) Four.
(c) Three.
(d) Two.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did Mrs. Wright point when Mr. Hale asked the whereabouts of Mr. Wright?

2. What is Sheriff Peters' first name?

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

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

5. Whose "hands aren't always as clean as they might be," according to Mrs. Hale?

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