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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What refers to direct perception of truth, independent of any reasoning process?
(a) Exposition
(b) Misogyny
(c) Retribution
(d) Intuition

2. Near the end of the play, what does Mrs. Peters attempt to take from the box but cannot bring herself to do it?
(a) The canary
(b) The scissors
(c) The parakeet
(d) The slipper

3. What was Mrs. Wright’s name before she got married?
(a) Minnie Foster
(b) Marie Ross
(c) Mary Smith
(d) Sarah Anderson

4. What character says, “And yet, for all their worries, what would we do without the ladies?”
(a) Dr. Lloyd
(b) John Wright
(c) George Henderson
(d) Lewis Hale

5. Mrs. Hale remarks when looking at Mrs. Wright’s sewing that she wonders if she was going to do what or “just knot it”?
(a) Stitch it
(b) Quilt it
(c) Loop it
(d) Double it

Short Answer Questions

1. According to the Introduction, where was Trifles first performed?

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

3. How long does Mrs. Hale say it has been since she has been in the Wright home?

4. What character is described as a woman who “would ordinarily be called more comfortable looking, but she is disturbed now”?

5. Where was the theatrical collaboration that Susan Glaspell and George Cram Cook formed originated?

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