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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 1: "The Possibility of Evil".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Miss Strangeworth's nice cream-colored stationery say at the top?
(a) Miss Adela Strangeworth.
(b) Strangeworth House.
(c) The Strangeworths.
(d) It is monogrammed with her initials.

2. Why does Miss Strangeworth fail to notice the important detail about her letters?
(a) She notices that a car has turned down the street and is getting close.
(b) Linda Stewart begins sobbing again.
(c) One of the younger children bumps into her.
(d) She is busy thinking about sending a letter to Dave Harris's father.

3. What literary technique is used when Miss Strangeworth asks Helen if she has upset her husband by pointing out that the baby is " six months old and hasn't yet begun to learn to dance"?
(a) Simile.
(b) Personification.
(c) Imagery.
(d) Hyperbole.

4. Who planted the roses outside Miss Strangeworth's house?
(a) Her mother.
(b) Miss Strangeworth.
(c) Her great-grandmother.
(d) Her grandmother.

5. What color paper does Miss Strangeworth choose for the note to Don Crane about his baby daughter?
(a) Pink.
(b) Blue.
(c) Yellow.
(d) Green.

Short Answer Questions

1. What has Miss Strangeworth written to Mr. Lewis in one of her letters?

2. What causes Miss Strangeworth to say that the Cranes' baby will expect luxury all of her life?

3. Miss Strangeworth thinks that the Cranes are "infatuated" (421). What would this mean is true about the couple?

4. According to a town legend, what was Strangeworth House once mistaken for?

5. According to the narrator, how do the townspeople feel about Miss Strangeworth and her house and her roses?

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