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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was the name of Susan Glaspell's father?
(a) Forrest C. Glaspell.
(b) Theodore L. Glaspell.
(c) James. R. Glaspell.
(d) Elmer S. Glaspell.

2. What kind of trees surround the Wright home?
(a) Pine.
(b) Poplar.
(c) Maple.
(d) Cedar.

3. What does Mrs. Peters reply when the county attorney asks the women, "have you decided whether she was going to quilt it or knot it?"
(a) Knot it.
(b) Quilt it.
(c) Neither.
(d) Both.

4. What was the first novel published by Susan Glaspell?
(a) The Visioning.
(b) Fugitive's Return.
(c) The Glory of the Conquered.
(d) The Morning Is Near Us.

5. What does Mrs. Peters reply when Mrs. Hale asks her, "Do you think she -- did it?"
(a) "Oh, I don't know."
(b) "It's possible."
(c) "I have no doubt."
(d) "What do you think?"

Short Answer Questions

1. When does Mrs. Hale recall having met Mrs. Peters previously in the beginning of the story?

2. What does Mrs. Hale begin to arrange after the men exit upstairs?

3. What does Mrs. Peters say Mrs. Wright had been worried about the night before when the weather turned?

4. What word means to find fault with (a person, group, etc.); blame; censure?

5. When alone with Mrs. Peters, Mrs. Hale asks, "I wonder how it would seem never to have had any" what?

Short Essay Questions

1. How is the Wright property described in the narrative?

2. How does the theme of guilt apply to Mrs. Hale in the narrative?

3. What leads Mrs. Hale to the conclusion that Mr. Wright killed the bird?

4. What does Mrs. Hale remark to Mrs. Peters about the lack of children in the home and Mr. Wright's personality when the women are alone?

5. What does Mrs. Hale discover in the box in Mrs. Wright's sewing basket? What does she do with it?

6. What does Mrs. Hale begin doing once the men exit to investigate upstairs? What does she discover in the kitchen?

7. What indication does Mrs. Wright give in front of Mr. Henderson that Mr. Wright was unpleasant?

8. What happens after Mr. Hale finishes his story of the previous day's events?

9. What did Mrs. Wright reply when Mr. Hale asked to see Mr. Wright?

10. What did Mrs. Wright do when Mr. Hale attempted to make small talk?

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