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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 1: "The Possibility of Evil".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What literary technique is used when Miss Strangeworth asks Helen if she has upset her husband by pointing out that the baby is " six months old and hasn't yet begun to learn to dance"?
(a) Personification.
(b) Simile.
(c) Hyperbole.
(d) Imagery.

2. What does Miss Strangeworth's nice cream-colored stationery say at the top?
(a) It is monogrammed with her initials.
(b) Strangeworth House.
(c) The Strangeworths.
(d) Miss Adela Strangeworth.

3. For how many years has Miss Strangeworth been writing her anonymous letters?
(a) 10.
(b) 1.
(c) 4.
(d) 14.

4. What did Tommy Lewis call Miss Strangeworth in high school?
(a) "Adela."
(b) "Worthy"
(c) "Addie."
(d) "Miss Adela."

5. Miss Strangeworth stops to discuss an "appropriation" with Miss Chandler (422). What are they talking about?
(a) Something that has been taken without permission.
(b) A meeting of an official organization or group.
(c) Money set aside for some purpose.
(d) A policy statement.

Short Answer Questions

1. How old is Miss Strangeworth?

2. What does Helen Crane say she is worried that her daughter should be doing more?

3. Why does Linda Stewart refuse to tell Dave Harris what was in the letter to her parents?

4. According to the narrator, how do the townspeople feel about Miss Strangeworth and her house and her roses?

5. According to a town legend, what was Strangeworth House once mistaken for?

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