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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 discussing the case with the sheriff, the county attorney marks that the crime was committed in what way?
(a) Skillfully.
(b) Maliciously.
(c) Vengfully.
(d) Clumsily.

2. What does Mrs. Hale surmise Mrs. Wright was going to do with the bird?
(a) Throw it in the trash.
(b) Give it to Mrs. Wright.
(c) Bury it in the pretty box.
(d) Give it to the Sheriff.

3. What is Mrs. Hale's response when Mrs. Peters says, "Of course we don't know who killed the bird"?
(a) "I knew John Wright."
(b) "I knew Minnie Foster."
(c) "Minnie Foster did."
(d) "John Wright did."

4. Of the boy who killed Mrs. Peters' kitten as a child, she says, "If they hadn't held me back I would have" what?
(a) "Stopped him."
(b) "Gouged his eyes."
(c) "Hurt him."
(d) "Killed him."

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Mrs. Hale describe the dress Minnie Foster wore while singing with the choir?

2. When was Susan Glaspell born?

3. Who discovers uneven stitching in one of the quilt blocks?

4. Who states in the short story, "women are used to worrying over trifles"?

5. What is half-sifted when Mrs. Hale departs her kitchen in the beginning of the story?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Mrs. Hale recall Mrs. Wright? What significance does this have in interpreting Minnie's character?

2. How does Mrs. Hale "play off" the stitching of the quilt?

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

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

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

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

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

8. What leads the women to discover the pretty box in Mrs. Wright's sewing basket?

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

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

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