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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. As the men reenter to leave, Mrs. Hale takes the box and puts it where?
2. What does Mrs. Peters claim cats are, when talking with Mr. Henderson?
3. In what year did the Library of America select the original newspaper article upon which A Jury of Her Peers is based for inclusion in its two-century retrospective of American True Crime?
4. Where does Mrs. Peters say she and her husband had homesteaded before living here?
5. What did Mrs. Hale feel she should take her hand off of once the men reentered, but found herself unable to do so?
Short Essay Questions
1. How is the theme of gender roles defined in the plot of the story?
2. How did Mrs. Wright inform Mr. Hale of her husband's location and means of death?
3. When the county attorney asks if Mrs. Hale and Mrs. Wright had been friends, how does she reply?
4. How does Mrs. Hale feel about leaving her kitchen in the beginning of the story? Why?
5. Why had Mr. Hale stopped at the Wrights' property the previous day?
6. How is the theme of female loyalty illustrated in the story?
7. What indication does Mrs. Wright give in front of Mr. Henderson that Mr. Wright was unpleasant?
8. When Mr. Hale questioned Mrs. Wright about her husband's murder, what did she inform him?
9. What does Mr. Hale respond when questioned about how Mrs. Wright appeared when he'd arrived the previous day?
10. How is the character of Mr. Wright revealed in Mr. Hale's story?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Describe the character of Mrs. Hale and her relationship to Mrs. Wright in the narrative. How did Mrs. Hale know Mrs. Wright? Were they close? Why or why not?
Essay Topic 2
Describe and discuss the author's childhood and family, education, career and published works, common themes and stylistic elements in writing. When in Glaspell's career was A Jury of Her Peers published?
Essay Topic 3
Describe the setting of the story and discuss how this setting evokes mood. How is the Wright home described? What visceral sense do you get from the descriptions of the house? Why?
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