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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What character is described as “a slight wiry woman” with “a thin nervous face”?
(a) Bessie
(b) Mrs. Wright
(c) Mrs. Hale
(d) Mrs. Peters

2. Mrs. Hale refers to Mrs. Wright as “real sweet and pretty, but kind of timid and” what?
(a) Insincere
(b) Skittery
(c) Fluttery
(d) Shy

3. Whose now abandoned farmhouse provides the setting for Trifles?
(a) John Wright’s
(b) John Peters’
(c) James Wikins’
(d) John Hossack’s

4. What word does Mrs. Hale refer to Mr. Wright as, which indicates that he was tight with money?
(a) Stingy
(b) Close
(c) Tight
(d) Seedy

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What do the women decide to take to Mrs. Wright to help pass the time?

2. What does Mrs. Peters tell Mrs. Hale that she knows?

3. What kind of fruit does Mrs. Hale find in an unbroken jar in the cupboard?

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

5. What character says, “I’d hate to have men coming into my kitchen, snooping around and criticizing”?

(see the answer key)

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