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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Mrs. Hale muses, "Not having children makes less work, but it makes" what?
(a) Things too peaceful.
(b) Life boring.
(c) A quiet house.
(d) No sense.

2. From what university did Susan Glaspell earn her bachelor's degree?
(a) Brown University.
(b) Drake University.
(c) Yale University.
(d) Harvard University.

3. Whom does Mrs. Hale suspect is partially to blame for the mess in the house, when she's alone with Mrs. Peters?
(a) George Henderson.
(b) John Wright.
(c) The deputy sheriff.
(d) Sheriff Peters.

4. When was A Jury of Her Peers published?
(a) 1917.
(b) 1914.
(c) 1912.
(d) 1922.

5. In telling his story to the sheriff and county attorney, Mr. Hale remarks that he "didn't know as what his wife wanted" _____________.
(a) "Intrigued John."
(b) "Made much difference to John."
(c) "As she was very quiet."
(d) "Though John wanted to."

Short Answer Questions

1. Mrs. Hale describes Mrs. Wright as having been like a what in her youth?

2. What is the name of Mrs. Hale's eldest son?

3. What word means "not generous, especially with money," does Mrs. Hale use in referring to Mr. Wright?

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?"

5. When alone with Mrs. Peters, Mrs. Hale asks, "I wonder how it would seem never to have had any" what?

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