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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 did Tommy Lewis call Miss Strangeworth in high school?
(a) "Adela."
(b) "Addie."
(c) "Miss Adela."
(d) "Worthy"

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Miss Strangeworth tell Helen Crane about her worries?

2. What job does Miss Chandler hold?

3. What has Miss Strangeworth written to Mr. Lewis in one of her letters?

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

5. What do the people in town decide is wrong with Linda Stewart after they realize that she has not had a fight with her boyfriend?

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