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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Mrs. Hale tells Mrs. Peters, "I sew awful queer sometimes when I'm" what?
(a) "Just tired."
(b) "Lazy."
(c) "Angry."
(d) "Preoccupied."

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

3. Where did Glaspell study for one semester of graduate school?
(a) University of Miami.
(b) University of Chicago.
(c) University of San Francisco.
(d) University of Phoenix.

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

5. 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) Two.
(b) None.
(c) One.
(d) Three.

6. Whose "hands aren't always as clean as they might be," according to Mrs. Hale?
(a) Women's.
(b) Men's.
(c) Children's.
(d) Murderer's.

7. What word refers to lack of importance or consequence?
(a) Incognizance.
(b) Anarchy.
(c) Jubilation.
(d) Insignificance.

8. What was the name of Susan Glaspell's father?
(a) Forrest C. Glaspell.
(b) James. R. Glaspell.
(c) Theodore L. Glaspell.
(d) Elmer S. Glaspell.

9. What is Mrs. Hale's sister's name?
(a) Bessie.
(b) Samantha.
(c) Jennifer.
(d) Heidi.

10. How many men are waiting in the two-seated buggy when Mrs. Hale goes out to join them in the beginning of the story?
(a) Three.
(b) Four.
(c) Two.
(d) Five.

11. 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) "Children around."
(c) "Company."
(d) "Dogs around"

12. Of the boy who killed Mrs. Peters' kitten as a child, she says, "If they hadn't held me back I would have" what?
(a) "Stopped him."
(b) "Gouged his eyes."
(c) "Killed him."
(d) "Hurt him."

13. 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?
(a) Canaries.
(b) Hawks.
(c) Parrots.
(d) Pigeons.

14. Who had the sheriff sent to make a fire at the Wright house that morning in the story?
(a) His wife.
(b) An inmate.
(c) His deputy.
(d) The District Attorney.

15. For what short story did Susan Glaspell win a prize of $500 from Black Cat Magazine?
(a) "Joyous Spring Meadows."
(b) "Canyon of Sorrow."
(c) "The Mountains Within Me."
(d) "For the Love of the Hills."

Short Answer Questions

1. In what city did Glaspell work when she covered the murder trial of John Hossack?

2. 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?

3. Who stands accused of murder in A Jury of Her Peers?

4. Where do the men first gather upon entering the Wright house at the beginning of the story?

5. The county attorney asks himself before exiting with the men, "But would the women know a ____ if they did come upon it?"

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