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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Susan Glaspell wrote A Jury of Her Peers following the production of what play of the same plot and subject?
(a) Trifles.
(b) The Quiet Farmhouse.
(c) Vanishing Evidence.
(d) Little Things.

2. Who announces, "I'm going to stay here awhile by myself" near the end of the story?
(a) Mrs. Hale.
(b) George Henderson.
(c) Mr. Henderson.
(d) Sheriff Peters.

3. In what narrative mode is A Jury of Her Peers written?
(a) Third person.
(b) Fourth person.
(c) First person.
(d) Second person.

4. As Mr. Hale began to retell the previous days events, Mrs. Hale "had that sinking feeling of the mother whose child is about to _____________.
(a) "Speak a piece."
(b) "Confess to something."
(c) "Get into trouble."
(d) "Lie to her."

5. What theater troupe, of which Glaspell was a member, produced a one-act play with the same plot as A Jury of Her Peers?
(a) The Pittsburgh Players.
(b) The Philadelphia Players.
(c) The Provincetown Players.
(d) The Punxsutawney Players.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Mrs. Hale discover under the cloth in Mrs. Wright's sewing basket?

2. What novelist and playwright did Susan Glaspell marry?

3. Where do the women stand close together upon entering the Wright home?

4. Who is to bring Mrs. Wright some things at the jail?

5. How old was Mrs. Peters' first child when he died?

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