View a FREE sample

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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many women are waiting in the two-seated buggy when Mrs. Hale goes out to join them in the beginning of the story?
(a) Three.
(b) None.
(c) One.
(d) Two.

2. What is Sheriff Peters' first name?
(a) Henry.
(b) Lewis.
(c) John.
(d) George.

3. What does Mr. Hale say Mrs. Wright had responded when he asked "Ho' do, Mrs. Wright? It's cold, ain't it?"
(a) "Why's that?"
(b) "Is it?"
(c) "Not for this time of year."
(d) "Depends who you ask."

4. What is the pattern of the quilt the women discover in Mrs. Wright's sewing basket?
(a) Serene lake.
(b) Easter.
(c) Christmas.
(d) Log cabin.

5. Of Mrs. Hale, Susan Glaspell writes, "the fact that she had lived neighbor to that girl for twenty years, and had let her die for" what was more than she could bear?
(a) "Mere boredom."
(b) "Lack of loneliness."
(c) "Lack of life."
(d) "Companionship."

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the name of Susan Glaspell's father?

2. What does Mrs. Hale discover wrapped in a piece of silk in Mrs. Wright's things?

3. Susan Glaspell wrote A Jury of Her Peers based on the Hossack murder which she discovered working as _____________.

4. Mrs. Peters nervously says to Mrs. Hale, "it's a good thing the men couldn't hear us! Getting all stirred up over a little thing like a" what?

5. What does Mrs. Peters reply when the county attorney asks the women, "have you decided whether she was going to quilt it or knot it?"

(see the answer key)

This section contains 272 words (approx. 1 page at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample