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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. When Miss Strangeworth looks out the window after the story ends, what will she see?
(a) That the front of her house has been vandalized.
(b) That her neighbors are waiting to get answers from her.
(c) That the police are waiting to arrest her.
(d) That her roses have been destroyed.
2. The narrator says that Miss Strangeworth's letters "dealt with the more negotiable stuff of suspicion" (424). What is this saying about suspicion?
(a) It is the kind of thing that people argue about.
(b) It is a negative force in the lives of the people of the town.
(c) It is flexible in the way that facts are not.
(d) It is something that Miss Strangeworth feels more and more over time.
3. What do the people in town decide is wrong with Linda Stewart after they realize that she has not had a fight with her boyfriend?
(a) They think that she must have argued with her best friend.
(b) They think that she may be experimenting with alcohol.
(c) They think that she is having trouble in school.
(d) They think that there must be some problem at home.
4. What does Miss Strangeworth's nice cream-colored stationery say at the top?
(a) It is monogrammed with her initials.
(b) Miss Adela Strangeworth.
(c) Strangeworth House.
(d) The Strangeworths.
5. What does Miss Strangeworth fail to notice about her letters?
(a) The envelopes are not properly sealed.
(b) They do not have stamps on them.
(c) She has forgotten to address one.
(d) One has fallen onto the ground.
Short Answer Questions
1. According to the narrator, how do the townspeople feel about Miss Strangeworth and her house and her roses?
2. Who was the first owner of the grocery store?
3. What is implied about Miss Strangeworth's choice of the multicolored paper for her notes?
4. Miss Strangeworth thinks that the Cranes are "infatuated" (421). What would this mean is true about the couple?
5. What color paper does Miss Strangeworth choose for the note to Don Crane about his baby daughter?
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