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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 is half-sifted when Mrs. Hale departs her kitchen in the beginning of the story?
(a) Sugar.
(b) Flour.
(c) Cocoa.
(d) Salt.

2. How many women are waiting in the two-seated buggy when Mrs. Hale goes out to join them in the beginning of the story?
(a) One.
(b) Three.
(c) None.
(d) Two.

3. Mrs. Wright's shawl always hangs on what?
(a) The closet door.
(b) The coat rack.
(c) The cupboard door.
(d) The stair door.

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

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 Provincetown Players.
(c) The Punxsutawney Players.
(d) The Philadelphia Players.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of the county attorney?

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

3. In what year did the Library of America select the original newspaper article upon which A Jury of Her Peers is based for inclusion in its two-century retrospective of American True Crime?

4. What is Mr. Hale's first name?

5. Where did Mrs. Wright point when Mr. Hale asked the whereabouts of Mr. Wright?

Short Essay Questions

1. What condescending comments are made of the women as the men disappear upstairs?

2. How does Mrs. Hale recall Mrs. Wright? What significance does this have in interpreting Minnie's character?

3. What prevents Mrs. Hale from entering the Wright house upon their arrival?

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

5. How does Sheriff Peters begin the investigation after arriving at the Wright home? What does Mr. Henderson interrupt to ask?

6. What does Mrs. Hale hope her husband will do in retelling the previous day's events? Why?

7. What does Mrs. Peters say in response to Mrs. Hale berating herself for not visiting Minnie?

8. 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?

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

10. How does Mrs. Hale begin to piece together the signs of anger in the Wrights' house?

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