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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. Mr. Hale had come by the previous day to ask Mr. Wright if he wanted what installed?
(a) A fence post.
(b) A telephone.
(c) Gas heating.
(d) Electricity.

2. What word means "not generous, especially with money," does Mrs. Hale use in referring to Mr. Wright?
(a) Thrifty.
(b) Cheap.
(c) Frugal.
(d) Close.

3. Mrs. Hale suggests that Mrs. Peters not tell Mrs. Wright what?
(a) Her stitching was off.
(b) The dishes weren't done.
(c) They found the bird.
(d) The fruit is ruined.

4. The men reenter as Mrs. Hale is asking, "Do you suppose she was going to quilt it or just" what?
(a) Poke it.
(b) Knot it.
(c) Needle it.
(d) Stitch it.

5. Who enters the house near the end of the story saying, "I've got the team round now. Pretty cold out there"?
(a) Mrs. Peters.
(b) Mr. Hale.
(c) Mrs. Hale.
(d) Sheriff Peters.

Short Answer Questions

1. Mrs. Peters becomes frozen near the end of the story because she is unable to touch what?

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

3. Where do the women go to get things to take to Mrs. Wright?

4. Who had the sheriff sent to make a fire at the Wright house that morning in the story?

5. Mrs. Hale describes Mrs. Wright as having been like a what in her youth?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Why had Mr. Hale stopped at the Wrights' property the previous day?

4. What is discovered by Mrs. Peters in the stitching of Mrs. Wright's quilt?

5. Why does Mrs. Hale defend the suspect's dirty kitchen? What does Mr. Henderson regard this to be?

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

7. How does Mrs. Peters describe her understanding of stillness in the narrative?

8. When does Mrs. Hale ask Mrs. Peters her opinion on the guilt of Mrs. Wright? What is her reply?

9. How do the men respond to Mrs. Wright's worry about her preserves?

10. What does Mrs. Wright consider about the rocking chair in the Wrights' home? How is it described?

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