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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Mrs. Peters look for to wrap Mrs. Wright's clothing in?
(a) Burlap.
(b) Paper and string.
(c) A pillowcase.
(d) Silk fabric.

2. When alone with Mrs. Peters, Mrs. Hale asks, "I wonder how it would seem never to have had any" what?
(a) "Contact with the world."
(b) "Company."
(c) "Dogs around"
(d) "Children around."

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

4. Mrs. Hale is startled by hearing Mrs. Peters say: "A person gets discouraged -- and loses" what?
(a) Morals.
(b) Focus.
(c) Ability.
(d) Heart.

5. What is the name of Mrs. Hale's eldest son?
(a) Harry.
(b) Paul.
(c) Peter.
(d) Henry.

6. 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) 2002.
(b) 2008.
(c) 2005.
(d) 2003.

7. Susan Glaspell wrote A Jury of Her Peers following the production of what play of the same plot and subject?
(a) The Quiet Farmhouse.
(b) Trifles.
(c) Little Things.
(d) Vanishing Evidence.

8. What does Mrs. Hale begin to arrange after the men exit upstairs?
(a) Papers.
(b) Quilts.
(c) Preserves.
(d) Dirty pans.

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

10. How many times had Mrs. Hale been to the Wright home before the narrative begins?
(a) None.
(b) Three.
(c) One.
(d) Two.

11. 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?"
(a) Neither.
(b) Knot it.
(c) Both.
(d) Quilt it.

12. What sentence follows Mrs. Hale's line: "No, Wright wouldn't like the bird -- a thing that sang. She used to sing"?
(a) "And then she killed him."
(b) "He hated the melody."
(c) "And look where it got her."
(d) "He killed that too."

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

14. Who was the previous sheriff in the county before Sheriff Peters?
(a) Sheriff Gorman.
(b) Sheriff Jackson.
(c) Sheriff Roberts.
(d) Sheriff Rogers.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What unseen character is described as having "a voice that somehow seemed to be backing up the law with every word"?

2. Who went on trial for the murder of John Hossack?

3. As the men reenter to leave, Mrs. Hale takes the box and puts it where?

4. Where did John Hossack's murder take place?

5. Where had Mrs. Hale met Mrs. Peters previously?

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