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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 tell Helen Crane about her worries?
(a) All babies develop differently.
(b) She should talk with her baby's doctor.
(c) She should talk with her husband.
(d) They are just another example of the anxieties Helen has always had.
2. Why did Miss Strangeworth stop calling Tommy Lewis "Tommy" and start calling him "Mr. Lewis"?
(a) He asked her to marry him and then broke off their engagement.
(b) They had a terrible fight in high school.
(c) It was not usual for adults in this time to use one another's first names.
(d) She thinks that his status as a grocer is beneath her.
3. Why does Miss Strangeworth feel so certain that the children in front of the post office will be respectful toward her?
(a) She thinks that there is nothing about her that a person could possibly make fun of.
(b) She has been a good friend to their families and knows most of them by name.
(c) She thinks that they would not dare to make fun of someone as important as her.
(d) She knows that the children of the town have all be raised to respect older people.
4. What kind of flowers does Miss Strangeworth send to the church for the celebration of the new minister's arrival?
(a) Roses.
(b) Carnations.
(c) Poppies.
(d) Gladiolus.
5. Who planted the roses outside Miss Strangeworth's house?
(a) Her mother.
(b) Miss Strangeworth.
(c) Her grandmother.
(d) Her great-grandmother.
Short Answer Questions
1. Miss Strangeworth thinks that the Cranes are "infatuated" (421). What would this mean is true about the couple?
2. What is Dave Harris's reason for hand-delivering one of Miss Strangeworth's letters?
3. According to Miss Strangeworth, to whom should Helen apologize?
4. The narrator says that Miss Strangeworth's letters "dealt with the more negotiable stuff of suspicion" (424). What is this saying about suspicion?
5. Who is Ethan Allen?
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