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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What word from the stage directions means dashing courage or heroic bravery?
(a) Insurgence
(b) Gallantry
(c) Altruism
(d) Abstinence

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

3. After the men reenter from upstairs, what character says, “Well, I’ve got the team around. Pretty cold out there”?
(a) George Henderson
(b) Henry Peters
(c) Lewis Hale
(d) Harry

4. What is Mrs. Peters’ response when Mrs. Hale asks, “Do you think she did it?”
(a) No, I think she’s innocent
(b) Oh, what do I care?
(c) Oh, I don’t know
(d) Yes, I think she did

5. Where does Mrs. Hale begin to sit but then steps back while the women are alone downstairs?
(a) The bed
(b) The sofa
(c) The rocking chair
(d) The kitchen table

6. 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) Harry
(b) Bessie
(c) Dr. Lloyd
(d) Frank

7. What is Mr. Hale’s response when asked of Mrs. Wright, “How did she seem to feel about your coming?”
(a) Well, she seemed happy to see me
(b) Why, I don’t think she minded—one way or other
(c) Well, I think she wanted me to go
(d) She began weeping when I came in

8. What word in the narrative means to find fault with?
(a) Reproach
(b) Ordinate
(c) Interrogate
(d) Abnegate

9. At the end of the play, George Henderson remarks, “Well, Henry, at least we found out that she was not going to” what?
(a) Sew it
(b) Quilt it
(c) Knot it
(d) Kill it

10. Before they depart, Henry Peters remarks to Mr. Henderson, “I just want you to come in here a minute, George. We ought to take a look at” what?
(a) The doors
(b) These windows
(c) The attic
(d) The basement

11. According to Mr. Hale, how does Mrs. Wright respond when he says, “I want to see John”?
(a) She cried
(b) She looked worried
(c) She laughed
(d) She left the room

12. Near the end of the play, at what sound does Mrs. Hale snatch the box?
(a) The doorknob turning
(b) The horses approaching
(c) The doorbell ringing
(d) A dog barking

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

14. What was Mrs. Wright’s response when Mr. Hale asks her, “Weren’t you sleepin’ in the bed with him?”
(a) No, I was sleeping downstairs
(b) No, I was cooking
(c) Yes, but I was on the outside
(d) Yes, but I was on the inside

15. Mrs. Hale remarks that Mr. Wright did not do what?
(a) Work
(b) Drink
(c) Pay his debts
(d) Beat his wife

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Trifles is seen by critics and theorists as an early example of what dramatic genre?

3. According to the stage directions in the opening of the play, what is George Henderson’s profession?

4. In the narrative, Mrs. Peters says, “Somehow we just don’t see how it is with other folks until” what?

5. What character is described as “a young man”?

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