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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 is Mrs. Hale's sister's name?
(a) Heidi.
(b) Jennifer.
(c) Samantha.
(d) Bessie.

2. Whom did Mr. Hale call in to go upstairs with him the day before when he found Mr. Wright?
(a) Harry.
(b) Peter.
(c) Mrs. Hale.
(d) Frank.

3. When alone with Mrs. Peters, Mrs. Hale asks, "I wonder how it would seem never to have had any" what?
(a) "Dogs around"
(b) "Company."
(c) "Contact with the world."
(d) "Children around."

4. What is Mr. Hale's response when asked the question of Mrs. Wright, "How did she seem to feel about your coming?"
(a) "Well, she asked me to stay for tea."
(b) "Why, I don't think she minded -- one way or other."
(c) "She seemed agitated that I was there."
(d) "Why, she jumped up and ran from the room."

5. Of Mrs. Hale, Susan Glaspell writes, "the fact that she had lived neighbor to that girl for twenty years, and had let her die for" what was more than she could bear?
(a) "Lack of life."
(b) "Companionship."
(c) "Mere boredom."
(d) "Lack of loneliness."

Short Answer Questions

1. Who discovers uneven stitching in one of the quilt blocks?

2. In what year did Susan Glaspell die?

3. What kind of weapon was in the Wrights' house but wasn't used on Mr. Wright?

4. The county attorney asserts that there is "no sign at all of anyone having" what?

5. Mr. Hale had come by the previous day to ask Mr. Wright if he wanted what installed?

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