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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Trifles.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What character says, “the law is the law”?
(a) Bessie
(b) Mrs. Peters
(c) Mrs. Hale
(d) George Henderson

2. What does Mr. Hale say he is going to town to sell when he stops by the Wrights’ home?
(a) Carrots
(b) Apples
(c) Turnips
(d) Potatoes

3. Mrs. Hale tells Mrs. Peters, “She used to ____. He killed that too.”
(a) Dance
(b) Sing
(c) Talk
(d) Sew

4. George Henderson remarks to the Sheriff that there is “[n]o sign at all of anyone having” what?
(a) Murdered John Wright
(b) Injured the doors
(c) Come from the outside
(d) Called the home first

5. What word in the narrative means to find fault with?
(a) Interrogate
(b) Abnegate
(c) Ordinate
(d) Reproach

Short Answer Questions

1. George Henderson remarks that “a Sheriff’s wife is married to” what?

2. What word in the stage directions, meaning ashamed or embarrassed, describes the women when the men return from upstairs?

3. Mrs. Hale refers to Mrs. Wright as “real sweet and pretty, but kind of timid and” what?

4. What is located on the table in the opening scene of Trifles?

5. What acts as a symbol of Mrs. Wright’s marriage in the play?

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