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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When talking with Mrs. Peters, what does Mrs. Hale say her sister’s name is?
(a) Marie
(b) Betty
(c) Bessie
(d) Sarah

2. What is Mrs. Wright’s first name in the play?
(a) Sarah
(b) Martha
(c) Molly
(d) Minnie

3. What character asks “By the way, has anything been moved? Are things just as you left them”?
(a) Frank
(b) Henry Peters
(c) Lewis Hale
(d) George Henderson

4. 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) Double it
(b) Stitch it
(c) Loop it
(d) Quilt it

5. Who says, “I wish if they’re going to find any evidence they’d be about it. I don’t like this place”?
(a) Mrs. Peters
(b) Mrs. Hale
(c) George Henderson
(d) Mrs. Wright

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who does Henry Peters tell that they will be right out as he goes into the other room with George Henderson?

3. What was Mrs. Wright’s response when Mr. Hale asks her, “Weren’t you sleepin’ in the bed with him?”

4. What do the women note about the birdcage in the Wrights’ home while the men are outside?

5. What word in the narrative means to find fault with?

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