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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. Who is Ethan Allen?
(a) The librarian's boyfriend.
(b) Miss Strangeworth's deceased husband.
(c) A Revolutionary War hero.
(d) Miss Strangeworth's next-door neighbor.

2. What detail is included to show that Miss Chandler is upset about something?
(a) She has clearly been crying.
(b) She seems distracted and is a little rude.
(c) She looks as if she has not slept well.
(d) Her hair does not look as neat as usual.

3. What do people in town assume it means when someone writes on blue paper?
(a) They could not afford the more expensive cream-colored paper.
(b) They are irritated at the person they are writing to.
(c) They are trying to show off.
(d) They are almost out of paper.

4. 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 something that Miss Strangeworth feels more and more over time.
(b) It is flexible in the way that facts are not.
(c) It is the kind of thing that people argue about.
(d) It is a negative force in the lives of the people of the town.

5. Which one of her neighbors does Miss Strangeworth chat with while she is checking out at the grocery store?
(a) Linda Stewart.
(b) Don Crane.
(c) Dave Harris.
(d) Martha Harper.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who planted the roses outside Miss Strangeworth's house?

2. Why does Miss Strangeworth feel so certain that the children in front of the post office will be respectful toward her?

3. When does Miss Strangeworth generally mail her letters?

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

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

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