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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 Helen Crane say she is worried that her daughter should be doing more?
(a) Trying to move around.
(b) Looking around at the world.
(c) Babbling and making speech sounds.
(d) Eating.

2. According to a town legend, what was Strangeworth House once mistaken for?
(a) A school.
(b) A police station.
(c) A library.
(d) A museum.

3. Why does Miss Strangeworth feel so certain that the children in front of the post office will be respectful toward her?
(a) She thinks that they would not dare to make fun of someone as important as her.
(b) She knows that the children of the town have all be raised to respect older people.
(c) She has been a good friend to their families and knows most of them by name.
(d) She thinks that there is nothing about her that a person could possibly make fun of.

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

5. When does Miss Strangeworth generally mail her letters?
(a) Around the time the sun sets.
(b) Very early in the morning.
(c) In the middle of the night.
(d) Whenever she sees that there are not a lot of people at the post office.

Short Answer Questions

1. When Miss Strangeworth gets home from the grocery store, why does she not have the cup of tea she thinks about having?

2. What are the youngest children at the post office doing?

3. What does Miss Strangeworth fail to notice about her letters?

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

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

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