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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. When did the murder trial of John Hossack take place?
(a) 1899.
(b) 1901.
(c) 1902.
(d) 1900.

2. What is Mrs. Hale's first name?
(a) Connie.
(b) Minnie.
(c) Cassandra.
(d) Martha.

3. 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"

4. What does Mrs. Peters reply when Mrs. Hale asks her, "Do you think she -- did it?"
(a) "It's possible."
(b) "I have no doubt."
(c) "Oh, I don't know."
(d) "What do you think?"

5. Where do the women go to get things to take to Mrs. Wright?
(a) The bathroom.
(b) The kitchen.
(c) The bedroom.
(d) The front-room closet.

Short Answer Questions

1. For what does Mrs. Hale repeatedly blame herself in the story?

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

3. When was Susan Glaspell born?

4. Mrs. Hale catches sight of an opened bucket of _________ on a low shelf in the kitchen.

5. Mrs. Hale tells Mr. Henderson that she rarely visited the Wright home because it didn't seem very ________.

Short Essay Questions

1. Who did Mr. Hale call inside after Mrs. Wright told him Mr. Wright was dead? What did they find?

2. How does Mrs. Hale feel when her husband begins retelling the previous day's events? Why?

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

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

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

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

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

8. What does Mrs. Hale do with the stitching on the quilt? What is Mrs. Peters' response?

9. How is the theme of female loyalty illustrated in the story?

10. What indication does Mrs. Wright give in front of Mr. Henderson that Mr. Wright was unpleasant?

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