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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. Where do the men go to investigate after returning from upstairs?
(a) The barn.
(b) The kitchen.
(c) The field.
(d) The basement.

2. Mrs. Hale tells Mr. Henderson that she rarely visited the Wright home because it didn't seem very ________.
(a) Clean.
(b) Expensive.
(c) Cheerful.
(d) Motherly.

3. Who does Mrs. Hale say "have their hands full" to Mr. Henderson?
(a) Women.
(b) Sheriffs.
(c) Men.
(d) Farmers' wives.

4. What does Mr. Hale go to look after while the sheriff and county attorney are finishing investigating?
(a) The chickens.
(b) The horses.
(c) The pigs.
(d) The cows.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Mrs. Hale respond when the county attorney sees the birdcage and asks, "Has the bird flown?"

2. Sheriff Peters is described as being particularly genial with____________.

3. What does Mrs. Peters notice about the bird cage?

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

5. From where did Mr. Henderson travel to come to the crime scene?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. When Mrs. Hale begins to piece together the story of Minnie Wright, how does she berate her own actions?

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

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

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

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

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

10. What in the beginning of the story indicates the time period of the narrative?

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