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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 theater troupe, of which Glaspell was a member, produced a one-act play with the same plot as A Jury of Her Peers?
(a) The Philadelphia Players.
(b) The Punxsutawney Players.
(c) The Provincetown Players.
(d) The Pittsburgh Players.

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

3. Mrs. Hale tells Mr. Henderson that she rarely visited the Wright home because it didn't seem very ________.
(a) Clean.
(b) Expensive.
(c) Motherly.
(d) Cheerful.

4. To whose house did Harry go to use the telephone the previous day?
(a) The Johnsons'.
(b) The Abbots'.
(c) The Rivers'.
(d) The Stevens'.

5. What is the setting of A Jury of Her Peers?
(a) Wright County.
(b) Dickson County.
(c) Jackson County.
(d) Anderson County.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Mrs. Peters say she and her husband had homesteaded before living here?

2. For what short story did Susan Glaspell win a prize of $500 from Black Cat Magazine?

3. What is half-sifted when Mrs. Hale departs her kitchen in the beginning of the story?

4. Mr. Hale had come by the previous day to ask Mr. Wright if he wanted what installed?

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

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