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

Multiple Choice 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?
(a) Abused
(b) Slighted
(c) Beaten
(d) Shabby

2. According to Mrs. Peters, the item that Mrs. Wright had asked for, in addition to clothes, is located where?
(a) The bathroom closet
(b) The attic closet
(c) The basement
(d) The top drawer of the cupboard

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

4. For how many months did Susan Glaspell cover the John Hossack murder case?
(a) 4
(b) 20
(c) 30
(d) 16

5. At the end of the play, George Henderson remarks, “Well, Henry, at least we found out that she was not going to” what?
(a) Sew it
(b) Quilt it
(c) Knot it
(d) Kill it

Short Answer Questions

1. In what region of the United States is Trifles set?

2. What sentence was the murder suspect given for the murder of John Hossack?

3. Who says, “I wish if they’re going to find any evidence they’d be about it. I don’t like this place”?

4. Mrs. Peters tells Mrs. Hale that when the boy killed her kitten she would have done what “if they hadn’t held me back”?

5. Mrs. Hale remarks that there was a man selling what kind of birds last year?

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