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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) Hyperbole.
(b) Imagery.
(c) Simile.
(d) Personification.
2. According to the narrator, how do the townspeople feel about Miss Strangeworth and her house and her roses?
(a) Amused.
(b) Irritated.
(c) Jealous.
(d) Proud.
3. According to Miss Strangeworth, to whom should Helen apologize?
(a) Her mother.
(b) The baby.
(c) Her husband.
(d) Miss Strangeworth.
4. Why did Miss Strangeworth stop calling Tommy Lewis "Tommy" and start calling him "Mr. Lewis"?
(a) They had a terrible fight in high school.
(b) He asked her to marry him and then broke off their engagement.
(c) She thinks that his status as a grocer is beneath her.
(d) It was not usual for adults in this time to use one another's first names.
5. Miss Strangeworth thinks about the Cranes "indulgently" (421). How does she think about them?
(a) In the surprised way that an adult looks at a child that has done something strange.
(b) With the kindness that a person shows to someone who needs a little extra generosity or lenience.
(c) In the forgiving but irritated way that an adult looks at a misbehaving child.
(d) With the scorn that people show towards those who eat, drink, or do other things to excess.
Short Answer Questions
1. Why does Miss Strangeworth refer to the Cranes' baby as "her highness" (421)?
2. When Miss Strangeworth is walking "daintily" along Main Street, (417), how is she walking?
3. Why does Miss Strangeworth think that she has a right to eavesdrop on Linda Stewart at the post office?
4. 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?
5. What do people in town assume it means when someone writes on blue paper?
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