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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 respond when the county attorney sees the birdcage and asks, "Has the bird flown?"
(a) "It has."
(b) "To heaven."
(c) "We think the cat got it."
(d) "It was murdered."

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

3. What was Mrs. Wright's maiden name?
(a) Fisher.
(b) Jackson.
(c) Johnson.
(d) Foster.

4. 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?
(a) "Dirty kitchen."
(b) "Sink of dishes."
(c) "Dead canary."
(d) "Quilt."

5. Why is Mr. Henderson unable to dry his hands after washing them in the sink?
(a) The hand-towels are dirty.
(b) The towels are wet in the sink.
(c) Mrs. Hale has the towels.
(d) There are no towels.

Short Answer Questions

1. What novelist and playwright did Susan Glaspell marry?

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

3. Who enters the house near the end of the story saying, "I've got the team round now. Pretty cold out there"?

4. What unseen character is described as having "a voice that somehow seemed to be backing up the law with every word"?

5. How did Mrs. Wright describe her sleeping habits to Mr. Hale?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Mr. Hale describe when he knocked at the Wrights' door the previous day?

2. 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?

3. How does Mrs. Hale begin to piece together the signs of anger in the Wrights' house?

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

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

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

7. What passing comment of Mr. Hale's reveals information about the relationship of the Wrights'?

8. What happens after Mr. Hale finishes his story of the previous day's events?

9. What does Mr. Hale respond when questioned about how Mrs. Wright appeared when he'd arrived the previous day?

10. What does Mr. Henderson discover broken in the cupboard?

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