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

2. What job does Miss Chandler hold?
(a) Librarian.
(b) Schoolteacher.
(c) Grocery clerk.
(d) Nanny.

3. Why does Miss Strangeworth refer to the Cranes' baby as "her highness" (421)?
(a) She is making fun of the possibility that the baby has some kind of developmental problem.
(b) Helen Crane has referred to her as a "princess."
(c) The Cranes are from an even older and more important family than Miss Strangeworth's.
(d) She is trying to make Helen feel better about the baby's problems.

4. What is the longest time that Miss Strangeworth has been away from her town?
(a) She has never left it.
(b) One week.
(c) One day.
(d) One month.

5. When does Miss Strangeworth generally mail her letters?
(a) Whenever she sees that there are not a lot of people at the post office.
(b) Around the time the sun sets.
(c) Very early in the morning.
(d) In the middle of the night.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Tommy Lewis call Miss Strangeworth in high school?

2. For how many years has Miss Strangeworth been writing her anonymous letters?

3. Why does Linda Stewart refuse to tell Dave Harris what was in the letter to her parents?

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. What detail is included to show that Miss Chandler is upset about something?

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