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

2. According to the narrator, how do the townspeople feel about Miss Strangeworth and her house and her roses?
(a) Jealous.
(b) Proud.
(c) Irritated.
(d) Amused.

3. 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 almost out of paper.
(c) They are trying to show off.
(d) They are irritated at the person they are writing to.

4. What does Miss Strangeworth tell Mr. Lewis that he has forgotten to do?
(a) Tell his grandson that she said "hello."
(b) Stock the brand of cat food she needs.
(c) Charge her for the strawberries.
(d) Remind her to buy tea.

5. Helen Crane looks at her baby with "rapt wonder" (421). How is she looking at the baby?
(a) With all of her attention on something amazing.
(b) With a focused suspicion.
(c) With a startled, questioning look.
(d) With a puzzled, pinched look.

Short Answer Questions

1. What job does Miss Chandler hold?

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

3. What does Helen Crane say she is worried that her daughter should be doing more?

4. What letter does Miss Strangeworth think about writing to the school board?

5. What are the youngest children at the post office doing?

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