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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What was Mrs. Wright's maiden name?
(a) Jackson.
(b) Foster.
(c) Fisher.
(d) Johnson.

3. 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) "Hurt him."
(b) "Gouged his eyes."
(c) "Killed him."
(d) "Stopped him."

4. With what group had Minnie Foster sung in her youth?
(a) A high school band.
(b) A glee club.
(c) The town choir.
(d) An opera.

5. According to Mr. Hale's story, Mrs. Wright was doing what to her apron when he visited?
(a) Sewing a patch on it.
(b) Pleating it.
(c) Ripping at it.
(d) Ironing it.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Mrs. Hale's eldest son doing in town while she and her husband are with the sheriff in the story?

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

3. Who is to bring Mrs. Wright some things at the jail?

4. 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" ____________.

5. What does Mrs. Hale discover wrapped in a piece of silk in Mrs. Wright's things?

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