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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 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 could not afford the more expensive cream-colored paper.
(c) They are trying to show off.
(d) They are almost out of paper.

2. On what street does Miss Strangeworth live?
(a) Rose Street.
(b) Strangeworth Street.
(c) Main Street.
(d) Pleasant Street.

3. Why does Miss Strangeworth refer to the Cranes' baby as "her highness" (421)?
(a) The Cranes are from an even older and more important family than Miss Strangeworth's.
(b) Helen Crane has referred to her as a "princess."
(c) She is making fun of the possibility that the baby has some kind of developmental problem.
(d) She is trying to make Helen feel better about the baby's problems.

4. Who is Ethan Allen?
(a) Miss Strangeworth's deceased husband.
(b) Miss Strangeworth's next-door neighbor.
(c) The librarian's boyfriend.
(d) A Revolutionary War hero.

5. When Miss Strangeworth looks out the window after the story ends, what will she see?
(a) That the police are waiting to arrest her.
(b) That the front of her house has been vandalized.
(c) That her neighbors are waiting to get answers from her.
(d) That her roses have been destroyed.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the longest time that Miss Strangeworth has been away from her town?

2. Miss Strangeworth thinks about the Cranes "indulgently" (421). How does she think about them?

3. The narrator says that Miss Strangeworth's letters "dealt with the more negotiable stuff of suspicion" (424). What is this saying about suspicion?

4. When Miss Strangeworth is walking "daintily" along Main Street, (417), how is she walking?

5. According to Miss Strangeworth, to whom should Helen apologize?

(see the answer key)

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