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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Detailed Summary & Analysis.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Mrs. Hale in the middle of making when she must leave her kitchen in the beginning of the story?
(a) Bread.
(b) Pancakes.
(c) Cookies.
(d) Eggs.

2. When discussing the case with the sheriff, the county attorney marks that the crime was committed in what way?
(a) Maliciously.
(b) Skillfully.
(c) Vengfully.
(d) Clumsily.

3. Who discovers uneven stitching in one of the quilt blocks?
(a) Sheriff Peters.
(b) Martha Hale.
(c) George Henderson.
(d) Mrs. Peters.

4. In describing Mr. Wright, Mrs. Hale claims he was "like a raw wind that" what?
(a) "Gets into the bone."
(b) "Give you frostbite."
(c) "Has no mercy."
(d) "Blows through the trees."

5. Who asks the county attorney near the end of the story, "Did you want to see what Mrs. Peters was going to take in?"
(a) Sheriff Peters.
(b) Mrs. Hale.
(c) Minnie Foster.
(d) Mr. Hale.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Mrs. Hale suggest Mrs. Peters take with her to Mrs. Wright at the jail, to "take up her mind"?

2. What is Mrs. Hale's response when Mrs. Peters says, "Of course we don't know who killed the bird"?

3. Mrs. Hale describes Mrs. Wright as having been like a what in her youth?

4. What time was it when Mr. Hale had stopped by the Wright home the previous day?

5. What does Mr. Hale tell the county attorney his first thought was, upon seeing Mr. Wright?

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