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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 notice about the bird cage?
(a) It is missing a panel.
(b) There is no cover.
(c) The door is broken.
(d) It leans to the side.

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

3. Mrs. Hale describes Mrs. Wright as having been like a what in her youth?
(a) Deer.
(b) Bird.
(c) Squirrel.
(d) Horse.

4. What is half-sifted when Mrs. Hale departs her kitchen in the beginning of the story?
(a) Flour.
(b) Salt.
(c) Cocoa.
(d) Sugar.

5. In the beginning of A Jury of Her Peers, when Martha Hale opens the storm-door and gets a cut of the north wind, she runs back for ________________.
(a) Her coat.
(b) A wool scarf.
(c) Snow boots.
(d) A hat.

6. What did Mr. Hale think he heard someone say the second time he knocked on the Wright's door the previous day?
(a) "Mr. Wright is dead."
(b) "Go away."
(c) "Come in."
(d) "No one's home."

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

8. 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) "Lack of loneliness."
(b) "Companionship."
(c) "Mere boredom."
(d) "Lack of life."

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

10. Where had the sheriff sent someone "for that man who went crazy" yesterday in the story?
(a) Robin's Junction.
(b) Morris Center.
(c) John's Ferry.
(d) Aurthur's Crossing.

11. What unseen character is described as having "a voice that somehow seemed to be backing up the law with every word"?
(a) Mrs. Gorman.
(b) Mrs. Rogers.
(c) Mrs. Jackson.
(d) Mrs. Roberts.

12. In the actual murder case upon which A Jury of Her Peers is based, John Hossack was killed with what weapon?
(a) A frying pan.
(b) An axe.
(c) A rope.
(d) A gun.

13. From where did Mr. Henderson travel to come to the crime scene?
(a) Nashville.
(b) Denver.
(c) Omaha.
(d) Chicago.

14. In describing Mr. Wright, Mrs. Hale claims he was "like a raw wind that" what?
(a) "Blows through the trees."
(b) "Gets into the bone."
(c) "Give you frostbite."
(d) "Has no mercy."

15. Who asks the county attorney near the end of the story, "Did you want to see what Mrs. Peters was going to take in?"
(a) Mrs. Hale.
(b) Mr. Hale.
(c) Minnie Foster.
(d) Sheriff Peters.

Short Answer Questions

1. What color is the rocking chair in the Wrights' home?

2. Mrs. Hale catches sight of an opened bucket of _________ on a low shelf in the kitchen.

3. What does Mrs. Peters say Mrs. Wright had been worried about the night before when the weather turned?

4. What word means concealed; secret; disguised?

5. In what month does the story take place?

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