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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) June.
(b) September.
(c) March.
(d) May.

2. When was the play Trifles first produced?
(a) 1916.
(b) 1915.
(c) 1911.
(d) 1912.

3. Where did John Hossack's murder take place?
(a) Cairo, Illinois.
(b) Bowling Green, Kentucky.
(c) Columbus, Ohio.
(d) Indianola, Iowa.

4. Mrs. Hale states to Mrs. Peters, "The law is the law -- and a bad" what?
(a) "Man is a bad man."
(b) "Woman is a bad woman."
(c) "Law is a bad law."
(d) "Stove is a bad stove."

5. When talking with Mrs. Peters, Mrs. Hale claims, "If there had been years and years of -- nothing, then a bird to sing to you, it would be awful ____ after the bird was still."
(a) Lonesome.
(b) Still.
(c) Yet.
(d) Again.

Short Answer Questions

1. What word means "not generous, especially with money," does Mrs. Hale use in referring to Mr. Wright?

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

3. What does Mr. Hale tell the county attorney his first thought was, upon seeing Mr. Wright?

4. Where do the men go to investigate first after leaving the women in the kitchen?

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

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