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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What word from the stage directions means dashing courage or heroic bravery?
(a) Gallantry
(b) Abstinence
(c) Insurgence
(d) Altruism

2. Who claims “Somebody should have been left here yesterday”?
(a) John Wright
(b) Lewis Hale
(c) Henry Peters
(d) George Henderson

3. Mr. Hale says that he stops by the Wrights’ home to ask John Wright about sharing what?
(a) Winter firewood
(b) A telephone line
(c) A fence
(d) A barnyard

4. What is Mrs. Hale’s response when the County Attorney remarks, “Not much of a housekeeper, would you say, ladies?”
(a) There’s a great deal of work to be done on a farm
(b) Her husband wouldn’t let her clean
(c) She was busy with the children, mostly
(d) She was an excellent housekeeper, sir

5. As the men reenter from upstairs, George Henderson says,, “No, Peters, it’s all perfectly clear except” what?
(a) A reason for doing it
(b) How they got in
(c) A weapon
(d) An alibi

Short Answer Questions

1. Mrs. Hale remarks to Mrs. Peters, “I suppose she felt she couldn’t do her part, and then you don’t enjoy things when you feel” what?

2. According to the Introduction, during what years did Susan Glaspell work as a reporter for the Des Moines News?

3. What character is described as “a slight wiry woman” with “a thin nervous face”?

4. What is the name of the Sheriff’s Deputy?

5. Mrs. Peters claims that “[t]he law has got to” do what?

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