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

2. Which one of her neighbors does Miss Strangeworth chat with while she is checking out at the grocery store?
(a) Martha Harper.
(b) Linda Stewart.
(c) Don Crane.
(d) Dave Harris.

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

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

5. Why does Miss Strangeworth feel so certain that the children in front of the post office will be respectful toward her?
(a) She thinks that they would not dare to make fun of someone as important as her.
(b) She knows that the children of the town have all be raised to respect older people.
(c) She has been a good friend to their families and knows most of them by name.
(d) She thinks that there is nothing about her that a person could possibly make fun of.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the best definition of "proverbial" in the sentence "Miss Strangeworth's hats were proverbial in the town" (426)?

2. Miss Strangeworth thinks that children mocking her would be "reprehensible" (426). What would their mocking be, in her opinion?

3. Who is the author of "The Possibility of Evil"?

4. For how many years has Miss Strangeworth been writing her anonymous letters?

5. Who planted the roses outside Miss Strangeworth's house?

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