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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 month does the story take place?
(a) May.
(b) September.
(c) June.
(d) March.

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?
(a) Pigeons.
(b) Hawks.
(c) Canaries.
(d) Parrots.

3. How does Mrs. Hale describe the dress Minnie Foster wore while singing with the choir?
(a) White with blue ribbons.
(b) Red with blue ribbons.
(c) Blue with red ribbons.
(d) Blue with yellow ribbons.

4. Where did Mrs. Wright point when Mr. Hale asked the whereabouts of Mr. Wright?
(a) Toward the backyard.
(b) Into the kitchen.
(c) Upstairs.
(d) Into the bathroom.

5. Mrs. Peters becomes frozen near the end of the story because she is unable to touch what?
(a) The dirty dishes.
(b) John Wright.
(c) The bird.
(d) The quilt.

Short Answer Questions

1. Mrs. Hale remembers Mrs. Wright mostly as she was before she married, how many years ago?

2. Who enters the house near the end of the story saying, "I've got the team round now. Pretty cold out there"?

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

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

5. Where do the women go to get things to take to Mrs. Wright?

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