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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who does Mr. Hale recall having said, “No, he’s dead all right, and we’d better not touch anything” when he discovered the murder?
(a) Bessie
(b) Dr. Lloyd
(c) Harry
(d) Frank

2. What do the women find in the fancy box in Mrs. Wright’s sewing basket?
(a) A dead parakeet
(b) A baby’s slipper
(c) A tooth
(d) A dead canary

3. Mrs. Hale tells Mrs. Peters, “If I was you, I wouldn’t tell her” what?
(a) Her bread was gone
(b) Her fruit was gone
(c) About the canary
(d) About the investigation

4. When did Susan Glaspell marry George Cram Cook?
(a) 1919
(b) 1916
(c) 1885
(d) 1913

5. Where was the theatrical collaboration that Susan Glaspell and George Cram Cook formed originated?
(a) Bay Ridge, New Jersey
(b) New York, New York
(c) Rutland, Connecticut
(d) Cape Cod, Massachusetts

Short Answer Questions

1. Where is Mrs. Wright discovered when Mr. Hale comes by and discovers the murder?

2. Where in the house does Mrs. Peters find a birdcage?

3. What word from the stage directions refers to something that lacks serious content?

4. Mrs. Hale says of Mrs. Wright, “I should think she would ‘a wanted a” what?

5. What word does Mrs. Hale refer to Mr. Wright as, which indicates that he was tight with money?

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