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

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

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

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

5. What business did Miss Strangeworth's grandfather run?
(a) A lumber mill.
(b) A shipping company.
(c) A dairy farm.
(d) A tailor shop.

Short Answer Questions

1. How old is Miss Strangeworth?

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

3. When does Miss Strangeworth generally mail her letters?

4. When Miss Strangeworth is walking "daintily" along Main Street, (417), how is she walking?

5. Helen Crane looks at her baby with "rapt wonder" (421). How is she looking at the baby?

(see the answer key)

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