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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where do the men first gather upon entering the Wright house at the beginning of the story?
(a) The bedroom.
(b) The stove.
(c) The doorway.
(d) The bathroom.

2. As the men reenter to leave, Mrs. Hale takes the box and puts it where?
(a) Back in the house.
(b) Under the buggy seat.
(c) Behind a rock.
(d) In her coat pocket.

3. Who states in the short story, "women are used to worrying over trifles"?
(a) Mr. Hale.
(b) Mr. Peters.
(c) Mrs. Peters.
(d) Mr. Henderson.

4. What is Mrs. Hale's eldest son doing in town while she and her husband are with the sheriff in the story?
(a) Getting a watch fixed.
(b) Buying clothes.
(c) Selling potatoes.
(d) Buying food.

5. What is Mrs. Hale in the middle of making when she must leave her kitchen in the beginning of the story?
(a) Bread.
(b) Cookies.
(c) Eggs.
(d) Pancakes.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who asks the county attorney near the end of the story, "Did you want to see what Mrs. Peters was going to take in?"

2. Where was Susan Glaspell born?

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?

4. Mrs. Hale states to Mrs. Peters, "The law is the law -- and a bad" what?

5. Whom does Mrs. Hale suspect is partially to blame for the mess in the house, when she's alone with Mrs. Peters?

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