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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 planted the roses outside Miss Strangeworth's house?
(a) Miss Strangeworth.
(b) Her great-grandmother.
(c) Her mother.
(d) Her grandmother.

2. What are the youngest children at the post office doing?
(a) Playing tag.
(b) Jumping rope.
(c) Playing with a puppy.
(d) Roller skating.

3. When Miss Strangeworth thinks to herself "People must live graciously, after all," (425), what does this show about her as a person?
(a) She understands the irony of her position in the town.
(b) She understands very little about other people.
(c) She wants everyone to have a life as nice as hers.
(d) She is a very selfish person.

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

5. Miss Strangeworth thinks that the Cranes are "infatuated" (421). What would this mean is true about the couple?
(a) They have a difficult relationship and often argue.
(b) They are strange people who often seem out of touch with others.
(c) They are kind people but perhaps not very intelligent.
(d) They are in love, in an exaggerated and perhaps foolish way.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the author of "The Possibility of Evil"?

2. On what street does Miss Strangeworth live?

3. Helen Crane looks at her baby with "rapt wonder" (421). How is she looking at the baby?

4. What is Dave Harris's reason for hand-delivering one of Miss Strangeworth's letters?

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?

(see the answer key)

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