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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Trifles.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The success of Trifles rests largely on what dramatic/literary device that means the audience is aware of facts not grasped by characters in the play?
(a) Exposition
(b) Irony
(c) Metaphor
(d) Alliteration

2. Where does Mr. Hale say Mrs. Wright pointed when he asks her where Mr. Wright is?
(a) Toward town
(b) To the kitchen
(c) Upstairs
(d) To the barn

3. In the narrative, Mrs. Peters says, “Somehow we just don’t see how it is with other folks until” what?
(a) Something happens
(b) Something comes up
(c) Someone is dead
(d) Something goes wrong

4. What type of pet does Mrs. Peters say Mrs. Wright was afraid of?
(a) Cats
(b) Birds
(c) Dogs
(d) Fish

5. The women at the end of Trifles illustrate which of the following concepts?
(a) Insolence
(b) Solidarity
(c) Animosity
(d) Arbitration

Short Answer Questions

1. In what room of the now abandoned farmhouse is the setting for the opening scene of Trifles?

2. Where do the women go to gather some things to take to Mrs. Wright in jail?

3. What character asks “By the way, has anything been moved? Are things just as you left them”?

4. What character says, “And yet, for all their worries, what would we do without the ladies?”

5. Who enters first in the opening scene of Trifles?

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