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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 Linda and Dave are seen together after school, they look "bleak" (422). How do they look?
(a) Cold.
(b) Hopeless.
(c) Confused.
(d) Angry.

2. What mood is evoked by the detail about Miss Strangeworth's table being capable of expanding to seat 22?
(a) Anger, because she isolates herself from the world.
(b) Amusement, because she thinks she is more popular than she is.
(c) Jealousy, because her family has so much money.
(d) Pity, because she is all alone in the world.

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

4. 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?
(a) They think that she must have argued with her best friend.
(b) They think that there must be some problem at home.
(c) They think that she may be experimenting with alcohol.
(d) They think that she is having trouble in school.

5. What is the purpose of including the details about how many people Miss Strangeworth talks to on her trip to the grocery store?
(a) It shows that Miss Strangeworth is a helpful and kind neighbor.
(b) It shows that Miss Strangeworth is nosy.
(c) It shows that the townspeople all need something from Miss Strangeworth.
(d) It shows that the townspeople like and trust her.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

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

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

(see the answer key)

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