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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Mrs. Hale notice about the kitchen table when she is alone with Mrs. Peters?
(a) It's covered in dust.
(b) It is wobbly.
(c) It has a lot of scratches.
(d) It's half wiped clean.

2. 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) Little Things.
(c) Vanishing Evidence.
(d) Trifles.

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

4. In what narrative mode is A Jury of Her Peers written?
(a) Second person.
(b) Fourth person.
(c) Third person.
(d) First person.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Mrs. Hale discover under the cloth in Mrs. Wright's sewing basket?

2. When alone with Mrs. Peters, Mrs. Hale asks, "I wonder how it would seem never to have had any" what?

3. For what short story did Susan Glaspell win a prize of $500 from Black Cat Magazine?

4. What does the sheriff suggest Mr. Henderson look at with him before leaving?

5. What does the county attorney say is "the thing we need" before exiting with the men to investigate?

Short Essay Questions

1. How is Mrs. Peters described through Mrs. Hale's thoughts in the beginning of the narrative?

2. When the county attorney asks if Mrs. Hale and Mrs. Wright had been friends, how does she reply?

3. What does Mrs. Hale remark to Mrs. Peters about the lack of children in the home and Mr. Wright's personality when the women are alone?

4. What does Mrs. Hale discover in the box in Mrs. Wright's sewing basket? What does she do with it?

5. What does Mrs. Hale regard of Mrs. Wright's clothing in the narrative?

6. How does Mrs. Hale recall Mrs. Wright? What significance does this have in interpreting Minnie's character?

7. What is suspicious about the choice of weapon used in the murder? What do the women remark about it?

8. What is the response of the men when they discover the women examining the sewing basket?

9. What foreshadowing is used in the opening scene of A Jury of Her Peers?

10. What close call do the women face in the climax of the story regarding the evidence?

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