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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. What is the longest time that Miss Strangeworth has been away from her town?
2. Miss Strangeworth thinks that people everywhere are "degraded" (425). What does this mean that she thinks about people?
3. According to the narrator, how do the townspeople feel about Miss Strangeworth and her house and her roses?
4. What is the purpose of including the details about how many people Miss Strangeworth talks to on her trip to the grocery store?
5. When Miss Strangeworth thinks to herself "People must live graciously, after all," (425), what does this show about her as a person?
Short Essay Questions
1. What does Miss Strangeworth write to Mrs. Foster about her upcoming surgery, and what is she implying?
2. Describe the significance of the paper that Miss Strangeworth chooses for her anonymous notes.
3. What does the green letter at the end of the story say, and what does it imply?
4. To whom do the townspeople want to dedicate a statue, and why does Miss Strangeworth say that it should be a statue of her grandfather, instead?
5. What details in the story let the reader know that Miss Strangeworth herself does not believe some of the accusations she is making?
6. Describe Miss Strangeworth's feelings about her roses.
7. What details does Jackson provide about the interior of Miss Strangeworth's house to show the pride the family has always taken in the house?
8. Describe Miss Strangeworth's relationship with Tommy Lewis.
9. Explain how Miss Strangeworth's need to do things perfectly is shown in how she writes her letters.
10. What is ironic about Dave Harris being the one to find and deliver Miss Strangeworth's dropped letter?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Write an essay that explores the symbolic significance of Miss Strangeworth's habit of burning notes that are not perfect. Offer evidence from the story to support your claims.
Essay Topic 2
Look up the psychological concept of "projection." Then, write an essay that affirms, refutes, or qualifies the following claim: "The Possibility of Evil" is at its heart a story about the consequences of projection. Support your claims with both textual evidence and evidence from reliable outside sources; cite all sources in MLA format.
Essay Topic 3
Characters can be divided into those who are "static" (characters that do not meaningfully change during the course of a story) and those who are "dynamic" (characters that do change in meaningful ways). Write an essay in which you make and defend a claim about which kind of character Miss Strangeworth is. Use textual evidence to support your claims.
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