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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Mrs. Hale suggests that Mrs. Peters not tell Mrs. Wright what?
(a) They found the bird.
(b) Her stitching was off.
(c) The dishes weren't done.
(d) The fruit is ruined.

2. What does Mrs. Hale discover wrapped in a piece of silk in Mrs. Wright's things?
(a) A jar of preserves.
(b) A dead canary.
(c) A journal.
(d) A broken plate.

3. When talking with Mrs. Peters, Mrs. Hale claims, "If there had been years and years of -- nothing, then a bird to sing to you, it would be awful ____ after the bird was still."
(a) Still.
(b) Yet.
(c) Again.
(d) Lonesome.

4. Mr. Henderson asks the sheriff if he's sure there's nothing in the kitchen that would point to any _______.
(a) Break-in.
(b) Motive.
(c) Conspiracy.
(d) Maliciousness.

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

6. Mrs. Hale describes Minnie Foster as having been _________ 20 years ago.
(a) Lively.
(b) Depressive.
(c) Strange.
(d) Conservative.

7. Mrs. Hale recalled that upon meeting Mrs. Peters the first time she didn't seem like _____________.
(a) A sheriff's wife.
(b) A mother.
(c) A republican.
(d) A mormon.

8. When Mr. Hale was asked how Mrs. Wright looked when he had entered the previous day, he first responds that she looked __________.
(a) Angry.
(b) Sick.
(c) Lonely.
(d) Queer.

9. What does Mrs. Peters say Mrs. Wright had been worried about the night before when the weather turned?
(a) Her fruit.
(b) Her husband.
(c) Her bird.
(d) Her cat.

10. Mr. Henderson states, after discovering a mess in the kitchen, "I guess before we're through with her she may have something more serious than _____ to worry about."
(a) Dirty dishes.
(b) Housework.
(c) Preserves.
(d) A filthy kitchen.

11. Sheriff Peters is described as being particularly genial with____________.
(a) The law-abiding.
(b) Criminals.
(c) Inmates.
(d) Children.

12. What novelist and playwright did Susan Glaspell marry?
(a) Casper Martin Stevens.
(b) Donald Robert Wilson.
(c) Ralph Arnold Watkins.
(d) George Cram Cook.

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

14. What was the first novel published by Susan Glaspell?
(a) The Morning Is Near Us.
(b) The Visioning.
(c) Fugitive's Return.
(d) The Glory of the Conquered.

15. What does Mrs. Hale surmise Mrs. Wright was going to do with the bird?
(a) Throw it in the trash.
(b) Bury it in the pretty box.
(c) Give it to the Sheriff.
(d) Give it to Mrs. Wright.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Mrs. Hale muses, "Not having children makes less work, but it makes" what?

3. When was Susan Glaspell born?

4. Where do the women go to get things to take to Mrs. Wright?

5. When Mrs. Peters asks if Mrs. Wright had a bird, Mrs. Hale replies that there was a man in town selling what the year before?

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