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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What color dress does Mrs. Hale describe Mrs. Wright having worn when singing in the choir?
(a) Pink
(b) Red
(c) White
(d) Blue

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

3. Why does Mrs. Hale say she hasn’t visited the Wright home much?
(a) It never seemed a very cheerful place
(b) It was too violent
(c) I hated Mrs. Wright
(d) Mr. Wright gave me the willies

4. Mrs. Peters exclaims to Mrs. Hale, “My, it’s a good thing the men couldn’t hear us. Wouldn’t they just laugh! Getting all stirred up over a little things like a” what?
(a) Birdcage
(b) Dead kitten
(c) Broken jar
(d) Dead canary

5. What character says, “the law is the law”?
(a) Mrs. Hale
(b) George Henderson
(c) Bessie
(d) Mrs. Peters

Short Answer Questions

1. Where in the house does all of the action of the play take place?

2. What word in the stage directions, meaning ashamed or embarrassed, describes the women when the men return from upstairs?

3. Who claims “Somebody should have been left here yesterday”?

4. Who invites the women to come up to the fire in the beginning of Trifles?

5. What acts as a symbol of Mrs. Wright’s marriage in the play?

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