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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 Miss Strangeworth gets home from the grocery store, why does she not have the cup of tea she thinks about having?
(a) She believes that it will spoil her appetite for her midday meal.
(b) She had a cup earlier in the day and thinks that a second cup is too indulgent.
(c) She has forgotten to buy tea at the grocery store.
(d) She is too tired and decides to have a nap.

2. What color paper does Miss Strangeworth choose for the note to Don Crane about his baby daughter?
(a) Pink.
(b) Yellow.
(c) Green.
(d) Blue.

3. 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.

4. 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) She knows Linda's parents well.
(c) It is a public place.
(d) It is "her" town and she needs to know if "her" people are in trouble.

5. Why did Miss Strangeworth stop calling Tommy Lewis "Tommy" and start calling him "Mr. Lewis"?
(a) He asked her to marry him and then broke off their engagement.
(b) It was not usual for adults in this time to use one another's first names.
(c) She thinks that his status as a grocer is beneath her.
(d) They had a terrible fight in high school.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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"?

2. When Linda and Dave are seen together after school, they look "bleak" (422). How do they look?

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

4. Miss Strangeworth stops to discuss an "appropriation" with Miss Chandler (422). What are they talking about?

5. When Linda says "Catch old lady Strangeworth sending anybody a check," (427), what is she implying?

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