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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. When Miss Strangeworth looks out the window after the story ends, what will she see?
(a) That the front of her house has been vandalized.
(b) That her roses have been destroyed.
(c) That the police are waiting to arrest her.
(d) That her neighbors are waiting to get answers from her.
2. What job does Miss Chandler hold?
(a) Grocery clerk.
(b) Nanny.
(c) Schoolteacher.
(d) Librarian.
3. What is Dave Harris's reason for hand-delivering one of Miss Strangeworth's letters?
(a) He hopes that Mr. Crane will give him a reward.
(b) He hopes that it will help Mr. Stewart to see that he is actually a nice guy.
(c) He thinks that it might have good news in it for Mr. Crane.
(d) He has a suspicion that Miss Strangeworth is the anonymous letter writer.
4. Who was the first owner of the grocery store?
(a) Tommy Lewis's grandfather.
(b) Tommy Lewis.
(c) Miss Strangeworth's father.
(d) Tommy Lewis's father.
5. Why does Miss Strangeworth feel so certain that the children in front of the post office will be respectful toward her?
(a) She has been a good friend to their families and knows most of them by name.
(b) She thinks that there is nothing about her that a person could possibly make fun of.
(c) She knows that the children of the town have all be raised to respect older people.
(d) She thinks that they would not dare to make fun of someone as important as her.
Short Answer Questions
1. What did Tommy Lewis call Miss Strangeworth in high school?
2. According to a town legend, what was Strangeworth House once mistaken for?
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. Helen Crane looks at her baby with "rapt wonder" (421). How is she looking at the baby?
5. Miss Strangeworth thinks that people everywhere are "degraded" (425). What does this mean that she thinks about people?
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