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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 Mrs. Hale absentmindedly begin to do with the ill-stitched block of quilting?
(a) Take out the stitches.
(b) Cut it with scissors.
(c) Fold it and put it away.
(d) Throw it in the fireplace.

2. What does Mr. Hale go to look after while the sheriff and county attorney are finishing investigating?
(a) The cows.
(b) The horses.
(c) The pigs.
(d) The chickens.

3. In what year did the Library of America select the original newspaper article upon which A Jury of Her Peers is based for inclusion in its two-century retrospective of American True Crime?
(a) 2005.
(b) 2008.
(c) 2002.
(d) 2003.

4. Who had the sheriff sent off "for that man who went crazy" yesterday in the story?
(a) Roger.
(b) William.
(c) Frank.
(d) Carl.

5. Mrs. Hale recalled that upon meeting Mrs. Peters the first time she didn't seem like _____________.
(a) A mormon.
(b) A sheriff's wife.
(c) A mother.
(d) A republican.

Short Answer Questions

1. Susan Glaspell wrote A Jury of Her Peers following the production of what play of the same plot and subject?

2. What does Mrs. Peters attempt to put in her handbag before they leave the house?

3. Mr. Hale tells the sheriff that he had been going to town the previous morning with whom?

4. For what short story did Susan Glaspell win a prize of $500 from Black Cat Magazine?

5. Mrs. Hale tells Mrs. Peters, "I sew awful queer sometimes when I'm" what?

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