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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. Miss Strangeworth thinks that the Cranes are "infatuated" (421). What would this mean is true about the couple?
(a) They are kind people but perhaps not very intelligent.
(b) They are strange people who often seem out of touch with others.
(c) They have a difficult relationship and often argue.
(d) They are in love, in an exaggerated and perhaps foolish way.
2. What do people in town assume it means when someone writes on blue paper?
(a) They could not afford the more expensive cream-colored paper.
(b) They are irritated at the person they are writing to.
(c) They are trying to show off.
(d) They are almost out of paper.
3. What word is repeatedly used to describe the day on which the story opens?
(a) "Lovely."
(b) "Summery."
(c) "Mild."
(d) "Golden."
4. When Linda says "Catch old lady Strangeworth sending anybody a check," (427), what is she implying?
(a) Miss Strangeworth is cruel.
(b) Miss Strangeworth is weird.
(c) Miss Strangeworth is getting absentminded.
(d) Miss Strangeworth is not generous.
5. What do the people in town decide is wrong with Linda Stewart after they realize that she has not had a fight with her boyfriend?
(a) They think that she is having trouble in school.
(b) They think that she must have argued with her best friend.
(c) They think that there must be some problem at home.
(d) They think that she may be experimenting with alcohol.
Short Answer Questions
1. When Miss Strangeworth is walking "daintily" along Main Street, (417), how is she walking?
2. 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"?
3. What color paper does Miss Strangeworth choose for the note to Don Crane about his baby daughter?
4. Why did Miss Strangeworth stop calling Tommy Lewis "Tommy" and start calling him "Mr. Lewis"?
5. The narrator says that Miss Strangeworth's letters "dealt with the more negotiable stuff of suspicion" (424). What is this saying about suspicion?
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