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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 Mr. Hale go to look after while the sheriff and county attorney are finishing investigating?
(a) The pigs.
(b) The horses.
(c) The cows.
(d) The chickens.

2. What is the title of the original newspaper article upon which A Jury of Her Peers is based?
(a) "Death on the Farm."
(b) "The Hossack Murder."
(c) "Rural Homicide."
(d) "Mrs. Wright Kills Husband."

3. Who had requested that Mrs. Hale come along to the crime scene in the beginning of the story?
(a) Lewis Hale.
(b) Mrs. Peters.
(c) Henry Peters.
(d) George Henderson.

4. As Mr. Hale began to retell the previous days events, Mrs. Hale "had that sinking feeling of the mother whose child is about to _____________.
(a) "Lie to her."
(b) "Speak a piece."
(c) "Confess to something."
(d) "Get into trouble."

5. What does the county attorney say is "the thing we need" before exiting with the men to investigate?
(a) A weapon.
(b) A time of death.
(c) A suspect.
(d) A motive.

Short Answer Questions

1. When discussing the case with the sheriff, the county attorney says, "But you know juries when it comes to" what?

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

3. In the actual murder case upon which A Jury of Her Peers is based, John Hossack was killed with what weapon?

4. What does Mrs. Hale surmise Mrs. Wright was going to do with the bird?

5. 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?

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