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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Remarks about Mr. Wright indicate that he did not do much of what?
(a) Arguing
(b) Talking
(c) Staying quiet
(d) Complaining

2. After the men reenter from upstairs, who says he is going to stay at the Wright home by himself?
(a) Dr. Lloyd
(b) Lewis Hale
(c) George Henderson
(d) Henry Peters

3. As a founding member of a famous theatrical collaboration, Susan Glaspell arranged for the first ever reading of a play by what famed playwright?
(a) Samuel Beckett
(b) Eugene O’Neill
(c) Norman Mailer
(d) Edward Albee

4. Mrs. Peters tells Mrs. Hale, “Mr. Henderson said coming out that what was needed for the case was” what?
(a) Fingerprints
(b) An alibi
(c) A motive
(d) A weapon

5. Trifles is seen by critics and theorists as an early example of what dramatic genre?
(a) Feminist drama
(b) Realist drama
(c) Absurdist drama
(d) Dadaist drama

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Mrs. Peters, who says it looks “bad for” Mrs. Wright?

2. Where do the women go to gather some things to take to Mrs. Wright in jail?

3. What does Mr. Hale say he thinks he hears someone say when he knocks a second time on the Wrights’ door?

4. According to the stage directions in the opening of the play, what is Lewis Hale’s profession?

5. George Henderson remarks that “a Sheriff’s wife is married to” what?

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