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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) Eating.
(b) Babbling and making speech sounds.
(c) Looking around at the world.
(d) Trying to move around.

2. According to the narrator, how do the townspeople feel about Miss Strangeworth and her house and her roses?
(a) Irritated.
(b) Proud.
(c) Jealous.
(d) Amused.

3. When Miss Strangeworth is walking "daintily" along Main Street, (417), how is she walking?
(a) Delicately, with small steps; in a charming way.
(b) Slowly, in an unsteady and careful manner.
(c) Quickly, briskly, as if she is in a hurry.
(d) Boldly, as if she is in charge of her surroundings.

4. What has Miss Strangeworth written to Mr. Lewis in one of her letters?
(a) That his nephew is plotting to kill him.
(b) That his grandson is stealing from him.
(c) That his wife is cheating on him.
(d) That his girlfriend probably killed her first husband.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. When Miss Strangeworth gets home from the grocery store, why does she not have the cup of tea she thinks about having?

3. Who is the original owner of Miss Strangeworth's house?

4. What is implied about Miss Strangeworth's choice of the multicolored paper for her notes?

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

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