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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Susan Glaspell wrote A Jury of Her Peers based on the Hossack murder which she discovered working as _____________.
(a) A lawyer.
(b) A journalist.
(c) A judge.
(d) An actress.

2. Where do the women stand close together upon entering the Wright home?
(a) The bedroom.
(b) The kitchen.
(c) In the doorway.
(d) The living room.

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

4. Who asks the county attorney near the end of the story, "Did you want to see what Mrs. Peters was going to take in?"
(a) Sheriff Peters.
(b) Mr. Hale.
(c) Minnie Foster.
(d) Mrs. Hale.

5. What was Mrs. Peters' kitten killed with when she was young?
(a) A shotgun.
(b) A rock.
(c) A hatchet.
(d) An arrow.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Mr. Hale think he heard someone say the second time he knocked on the Wright's door the previous day?

2. Where did Glaspell study for one semester of graduate school?

3. 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."

4. What does Mrs. Hale almost sit down on when she is alone with Mrs. Peters?

5. What does Mrs. Peters notice about the bird cage?

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