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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. Why does Miss Strangeworth think that she has a right to eavesdrop on Linda Stewart at the post office?
(a) She means to help Linda with her troubles.
(b) It is a public place.
(c) It is "her" town and she needs to know if "her" people are in trouble.
(d) She knows Linda's parents well.

2. What is implied about Miss Strangeworth's choice of the multicolored paper for her notes?
(a) She does not think that her neighbors deserve her really nice stationery.
(b) She has less money than she pretends to and cannot afford to write so often on the expensive stationery.
(c) She is trying to make sure that her letters blend in with all of the other letters and notes in town.
(d) She wishes that she were more accepted as a "regular person" in the town.

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

4. What does Helen Crane say she is worried that her daughter should be doing more?
(a) Babbling and making speech sounds.
(b) Eating.
(c) Looking around at the world.
(d) Trying to move around.

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?
(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 is having trouble in school.
(d) They think that she may be experimenting with alcohol.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which one of her neighbors does Miss Strangeworth chat with while she is checking out at the grocery store?

2. 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"?

3. What mood is evoked by the detail about Miss Strangeworth's table being capable of expanding to seat 22?

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

5. Miss Strangeworth thinks about the Cranes "indulgently" (421). How does she think about them?

(see the answer key)

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