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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 respond when the county attorney sees the birdcage and asks, "Has the bird flown?"
(a) "It has."
(b) "To heaven."
(c) "It was murdered."
(d) "We think the cat got it."

2. Where was Mrs. Wright when Mr. Hale had entered the Wright house the previous day?
(a) Sleeping in bed.
(b) At the kitchen table.
(c) In the kitchen.
(d) In the rocking chair.

3. Where did Mrs. Wright point when Mr. Hale asked the whereabouts of Mr. Wright?
(a) Into the kitchen.
(b) Toward the backyard.
(c) Into the bathroom.
(d) Upstairs.

4. When Mrs. Peters asks if Mrs. Wright had a bird, Mrs. Hale replies that there was a man in town selling what the year before?
(a) Pigeons.
(b) Parrots.
(c) Hawks.
(d) Canaries.

5. The county attorney asserts that there is "no sign at all of anyone having" what?
(a) "Stolen anything."
(b) "Come in from the outside."
(c) "An argument."
(d) "Struggled."

Short Answer Questions

1. The majority of the action in A Jury of Her Peers takes place in what room of the house?

2. How old was Mrs. Peters' first child when he died?

3. What novelist and playwright did Susan Glaspell marry?

4. As the men reenter to leave, Mrs. Hale takes the box and puts it where?

5. Mrs. Peters becomes frozen near the end of the story because she is unable to touch what?

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