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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 was Mrs. Peters' kitten killed with when she was young?
(a) A hatchet.
(b) An arrow.
(c) A shotgun.
(d) A rock.

2. What does Mrs. Hale suggest when Mrs. Peters questions what happened to Mrs. Wright's bird?
(a) "I suppose maybe the cat got it."
(b) "She gave it away."
(c) "It died of old age."
(d) "I think it flew away."

3. What does the county attorney say is "the thing we need" before exiting with the men to investigate?
(a) A motive.
(b) A weapon.
(c) A suspect.
(d) A time of death.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. According to the county attorney when he exits with the men to investigate, who is "one of us"?

2. Where do the men go to investigate first after leaving the women in the kitchen?

3. What is the pattern of the quilt the women discover in Mrs. Wright's sewing basket?

4. Who had the sheriff sent off "for that man who went crazy" yesterday in the story?

5. What does Mr. Hale go to look after while the sheriff and county attorney are finishing investigating?

Short Essay Questions

1. What memory of brutal loss does Mrs. Peters share from her childhood?

2. How does Mr. Henderson explain the need for a motive in the case to the sheriff?

3. What prevents Mrs. Hale from entering the Wright house upon their arrival?

4. What causes Mr. Hale to backtrack in his description of Mrs. Wright's demeanor in his interview with the county attorney?

5. What leads Mrs. Hale to the conclusion that Mr. Wright killed the bird?

6. When Mr. Hale questioned Mrs. Wright about her husband's murder, what did she inform him?

7. What condescending comments are made of the women as the men disappear upstairs?

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

9. What does Mrs. Hale begin doing once the men exit to investigate upstairs? What does she discover in the kitchen?

10. How did Mrs. Wright inform Mr. Hale of her husband's location and means of death?

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