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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. The Wrights' home is located in what?
(a) A cul-de-sac.
(b) A hollow.
(c) A thick forest.
(d) An apple grove.

3. Mr. Hale had come by the previous day to ask Mr. Wright if he wanted what installed?
(a) A telephone.
(b) Electricity.
(c) Gas heating.
(d) A fence post.

4. Mrs. Hale is startled by hearing Mrs. Peters say: "A person gets discouraged -- and loses" what?
(a) Heart.
(b) Focus.
(c) Morals.
(d) Ability.

5. What is the title of the original newspaper article upon which A Jury of Her Peers is based?
(a) "Death on the Farm."
(b) "Rural Homicide."
(c) "Mrs. Wright Kills Husband."
(d) "The Hossack Murder."

6. Of Mrs. Hale, Susan Glaspell writes, "the fact that she had lived neighbor to that girl for twenty years, and had let her die for" what was more than she could bear?
(a) "Lack of loneliness."
(b) "Mere boredom."
(c) "Companionship."
(d) "Lack of life."

7. Where did Mrs. Wright point when Mr. Hale asked the whereabouts of Mr. Wright?
(a) Into the bathroom.
(b) Toward the backyard.
(c) Into the kitchen.
(d) Upstairs.

8. What novelist and playwright did Susan Glaspell marry?
(a) George Cram Cook.
(b) Donald Robert Wilson.
(c) Casper Martin Stevens.
(d) Ralph Arnold Watkins.

9. Who is to bring Mrs. Wright some things at the jail?
(a) Mrs. Peters.
(b) Mrs. Hale.
(c) Mr. Henderson.
(d) Sheriff Peters.

10. What does Mrs. Hale begin to arrange after the men exit upstairs?
(a) Preserves.
(b) Dirty pans.
(c) Papers.
(d) Quilts.

11. What word refers to lack of importance or consequence?
(a) Anarchy.
(b) Jubilation.
(c) Incognizance.
(d) Insignificance.

12. What was Mrs. Wright's response when Mr. Hale asked her "Then why can't I see him?" after he was informed Mr. Wright was home?
(a) "Cause he's bathing."
(b) "Cause he's sleeping.."
(c) "Cause he's working."
(d) "Cause he's dead."

13. What had Mr. Hale been going to town to sell the previous morning?
(a) Radishes.
(b) Potatoes.
(c) Carrots.
(d) Tomatoes.

14. Susan Glaspell wrote A Jury of Her Peers based on the Hossack murder which she discovered working as _____________.
(a) A judge.
(b) A journalist.
(c) A lawyer.
(d) An actress.

15. Whom does Mrs. Hale suspect is partially to blame for the mess in the house, when she's alone with Mrs. Peters?
(a) The deputy sheriff.
(b) John Wright.
(c) Sheriff Peters.
(d) George Henderson.

Short Answer Questions

1. Mrs. Peters nervously says to Mrs. Hale, "it's a good thing the men couldn't hear us! Getting all stirred up over a little thing like a" what?

2. In the beginning of A Jury of Her Peers, when Martha Hale opens the storm-door and gets a cut of the north wind, she runs back for ________________.

3. For what does Mrs. Hale repeatedly blame herself in the story?

4. According to Mr. Hale's story, Mrs. Wright was doing what to her apron when he visited?

5. Susan Glaspell wrote A Jury of Her Peers following the production of what play of the same plot and subject?

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