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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The Wrights' home is located in what?
(a) An apple grove.
(b) A thick forest.
(c) A hollow.
(d) A cul-de-sac.

2. 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) Minnie Foster.
(b) Sheriff Peters.
(c) Mr. Hale.
(d) Mrs. Hale.

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) 2008.
(b) 2002.
(c) 2005.
(d) 2003.

4. What time was it when Mr. Hale had stopped by the Wright home the previous day?
(a) Before 9 a.m.
(b) After 8 a.m.
(c) Before 12 p.m.
(d) After 4 p.m.

5. Mr. Henderson states, after discovering a mess in the kitchen, "I guess before we're through with her she may have something more serious than _____ to worry about."
(a) A filthy kitchen.
(b) Preserves.
(c) Housework.
(d) Dirty dishes.

Short Answer Questions

1. In her despair, Mrs. Hail says, "I tell you, it's queer, Mrs. Peters. We live close together, and we" what?

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

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

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

5. 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."

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