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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 Miss Strangeworth's nice cream-colored stationery say at the top?
(a) It is monogrammed with her initials.
(b) The Strangeworths.
(c) Miss Adela Strangeworth.
(d) Strangeworth House.
2. Miss Strangeworth thinks that the Cranes are "infatuated" (421). What would this mean is true about the couple?
(a) They are strange people who often seem out of touch with others.
(b) They are in love, in an exaggerated and perhaps foolish way.
(c) They have a difficult relationship and often argue.
(d) They are kind people but perhaps not very intelligent.
3. What word is repeatedly used to describe the day on which the story opens?
(a) "Mild."
(b) "Lovely."
(c) "Golden."
(d) "Summery."
4. 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.
5. Why does Miss Strangeworth refer to the Cranes' baby as "her highness" (421)?
(a) Helen Crane has referred to her as a "princess."
(b) She is trying to make Helen feel better about the baby's problems.
(c) The Cranes are from an even older and more important family than Miss Strangeworth's.
(d) She is making fun of the possibility that the baby has some kind of developmental problem.
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. Who planted the roses outside Miss Strangeworth's house?
3. What are the youngest children at the post office doing?
4. Why does Miss Strangeworth feel so certain that the children in front of the post office will be respectful toward her?
5. 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"?
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