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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. Who is the author of "The Possibility of Evil"?
(a) Henry James.
(b) Flannery O'Connor.
(c) Katherine Anne Porter.
(d) Shirley Jackson.

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

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

4. What does Miss Strangeworth tell Helen Crane about her worries?
(a) All babies develop differently.
(b) They are just another example of the anxieties Helen has always had.
(c) She should talk with her baby's doctor.
(d) She should talk with her husband.

5. Linda suggests that since no one in town seems to care about her and Dave, they should not bother to help anyone else. When Dave decides to help anyway, what does it demonstrate?
(a) That a good person chooses to be kind and helpful even in difficult times.
(b) That even the town's teenagers are more mature than Miss Strangeworth.
(c) That Linda is really the problem in their relationship, not Dave.
(d) That Miss Strangeworth would not be so isolated if she were a kinder person.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Miss Strangeworth's nice cream-colored stationery say at the top?

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 does Miss Strangeworth tell Mr. Lewis that he has forgotten to do?

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

5. According to a town legend, what was Strangeworth House once mistaken for?

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