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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. Why did Miss Strangeworth stop calling Tommy Lewis "Tommy" and start calling him "Mr. Lewis"?
(a) It was not usual for adults in this time to use one another's first names.
(b) They had a terrible fight in high school.
(c) She thinks that his status as a grocer is beneath her.
(d) He asked her to marry him and then broke off their engagement.

2. Miss Strangeworth thinks that the Cranes are "infatuated" (421). What would this mean is true about the couple?
(a) They have a difficult relationship and often argue.
(b) They are kind people but perhaps not very intelligent.
(c) They are in love, in an exaggerated and perhaps foolish way.
(d) They are strange people who often seem out of touch with others.

3. What do people in town assume it means when someone writes on blue paper?
(a) They are trying to show off.
(b) They are almost out of paper.
(c) They could not afford the more expensive cream-colored paper.
(d) They are irritated at the person they are writing to.

4. What are the youngest children at the post office doing?
(a) Playing with a puppy.
(b) Jumping rope.
(c) Playing tag.
(d) Roller skating.

5. 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) Personification.
(b) Hyperbole.
(c) Imagery.
(d) Simile.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Miss Strangeworth feel so certain that the children in front of the post office will be respectful toward her?

2. What is Dave Harris's reason for hand-delivering one of Miss Strangeworth's letters?

3. When Miss Strangeworth is walking "daintily" along Main Street, (417), how is she walking?

4. Who was the first owner of the grocery store?

5. When Miss Strangeworth looks out the window after the story ends, what will she see?

(see the answer key)

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