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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. When Miss Strangeworth looks out the window after the story ends, what will she see?
(a) That her neighbors are waiting to get answers from her.
(b) That the police are waiting to arrest her.
(c) That her roses have been destroyed.
(d) That the front of her house has been vandalized.

2. What is implied about Miss Strangeworth's choice of the multicolored paper for her notes?
(a) She does not think that her neighbors deserve her really nice stationery.
(b) She wishes that she were more accepted as a "regular person" in the town.
(c) She has less money than she pretends to and cannot afford to write so often on the expensive stationery.
(d) She is trying to make sure that her letters blend in with all of the other letters and notes in town.

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

4. According to Miss Strangeworth, to whom should Helen apologize?
(a) Her husband.
(b) Her mother.
(c) Miss Strangeworth.
(d) The baby.

5. What is the best definition of "proverbial" in the sentence "Miss Strangeworth's hats were proverbial in the town" (426)?
(a) As clear and easy to understand as something from a proverb.
(b) As old-fashioned as something from a proverb.
(c) As inflexible and unchanging as something from a proverb.
(d) As well-known and widely understood as something from a proverb.

Short Answer Questions

1. What business did Miss Strangeworth's grandfather run?

2. What word is repeatedly used to describe the day on which the story opens?

3. Miss Strangeworth thinks that people everywhere are "degraded" (425). What does this mean that she thinks about people?

4. What does Miss Strangeworth tell Mr. Lewis that he has forgotten to do?

5. When Miss Strangeworth thinks to herself "People must live graciously, after all," (425), what does this show about her as a person?

(see the answer key)

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