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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When Miss Strangeworth looks out the window after the story ends, what will she see?
(a) That her neighbors are waiting to get answers from her.
(b) That the front of her house has been vandalized.
(c) That her roses have been destroyed.
(d) That the police are waiting to arrest her.

2. Who is the original owner of Miss Strangeworth's house?
(a) Her great-grandfather.
(b) Miss Strangeworth.
(c) Her father.
(d) Her grandfather.

3. How old is Miss Strangeworth?
(a) 71.
(b) 61.
(c) 81.
(d) 91.

4. What is the longest time that Miss Strangeworth has been away from her town?
(a) One month.
(b) She has never left it.
(c) One day.
(d) One week.

5. 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 the kind of thing that people argue about.
(c) It is flexible in the way that facts are not.
(d) It is a negative force in the lives of the people of the town.

Short Answer Questions

1. What letter does Miss Strangeworth think about writing to the school board?

2. Why does Miss Strangeworth fail to notice the important detail about her letters?

3. Why does Miss Strangeworth think that she has a right to eavesdrop on Linda Stewart at the post office?

4. What does Miss Strangeworth tell Mr. Lewis that he has forgotten to do?

5. Who is the author of "The Possibility of Evil"?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who is Linda Stewart, and why has she been so upset?

2. What does Miss Strangeworth write to Mrs. Harper, and what is she implying?

3. What is ironic about Dave Harris being the one to find and deliver Miss Strangeworth's dropped letter?

4. Describe the setting of the story "The Possibility of Evil."

5. To whom do the townspeople want to dedicate a statue, and why does Miss Strangeworth say that it should be a statue of her grandfather, instead?

6. Describe the significance of the paper that Miss Strangeworth chooses for her anonymous notes.

7. What does the green letter at the end of the story say, and what does it imply?

8. Describe the main character of "The Possibility of Evil."

9. Describe the exterior of Miss Strangeworth's house.

10. What does Miss Strangeworth write to Mrs. Foster about her upcoming surgery, and what is she implying?

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