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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. Helen Crane looks at her baby with "rapt wonder" (421). How is she looking at the baby?
(a) With a focused suspicion.
(b) With a startled, questioning look.
(c) With all of her attention on something amazing.
(d) With a puzzled, pinched look.
2. Miss Strangeworth thinks that children mocking her would be "reprehensible" (426). What would their mocking be, in her opinion?
(a) Deserving of strong criticism or blame.
(b) Puzzling.
(c) Predictable.
(d) Embarrassing to a social superior.
3. When Miss Strangeworth looks out the window after the story ends, what will she see?
(a) That her roses have been destroyed.
(b) That the front of her house has been vandalized.
(c) That the police are waiting to arrest her.
(d) That her neighbors are waiting to get answers from her.
4. Why does Linda Stewart refuse to tell Dave Harris what was in the letter to her parents?
(a) She is worried that part of the letter might be true.
(b) She is afraid that Dave will end their relationship if he knows the truth.
(c) She is embarrassed and horrified about what it said.
(d) She knows that he will become very angry if she tells him what is being said about him.
5. Why does Miss Strangeworth refer to the Cranes' baby as "her highness" (421)?
(a) Helen Crane has referred to her as a "princess."
(b) The Cranes are from an even older and more important family than Miss Strangeworth's.
(c) She is trying to make Helen feel better about the baby's problems.
(d) She is making fun of the possibility that the baby has some kind of developmental problem.
Short Answer Questions
1. When Linda and Dave are seen together after school, they look "bleak" (422). How do they look?
2. Why does Miss Strangeworth fail to notice the important detail about her letters?
3. Miss Strangeworth thinks that people everywhere are "degraded" (425). What does this mean that she thinks about people?
4. When Miss Strangeworth thinks to herself "People must live graciously, after all," (425), what does this show about her as a person?
5. Why does Miss Strangeworth think that she has a right to eavesdrop on Linda Stewart at the post office?
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