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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What acts as a symbol of Mrs. Wright’s marriage in the play?
(a) The bread
(b) The dirty dishes
(c) The birdcage
(d) The canary

2. What does Mrs. Hale feel she should take her hand off of once the men reenter, but finds herself unable to do so?
(a) The bread basket
(b) The sewing basket
(c) The birdcage
(d) The preserves

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

4. Where in the house does Mrs. Peters find a birdcage?
(a) The basement
(b) The attic
(c) The cupboard
(d) The bedroom

5. What does George Henderson ask the women as the men return from examining outside?
(a) Hello ladies, how has the investigation been going for you?
(b) Well, ladies, have you made the fire warmer yet?
(c) Well, ladies, have you gotten Mrs. Wright’s things ready?
(d) Well ladies, have you decided whether she was going to quilt it or knot it?

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who does Henry Peters say he sent to the farmhouse in the morning to make a fire?

3. Whose now abandoned farmhouse provides the setting for Trifles?

4. What character says, “the law is the law”?

5. From where has the County Attorney just returned upon arriving at the farmhouse?

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