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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Mrs. Hale remarks when looking at Mrs. Wright’s sewing that she wonders if she was going to do what or “just knot it”?
(a) Double it
(b) Stitch it
(c) Loop it
(d) Quilt it

2. As a founding member of a famous theatrical collaboration, Susan Glaspell arranged for the first ever reading of a play by what famed playwright?
(a) Eugene O’Neill
(b) Edward Albee
(c) Samuel Beckett
(d) Norman Mailer

3. What word from the narrative refers to a valley?
(a) Doublet
(b) Hollow
(c) Garter
(d) Fen

4. What is Mrs. Hale’s final line of the play?
(a) We call it—knot it, Mr. Henderson
(b) Yes sir, let us be out of this place
(c) We call it—quilt it, Mr. Henderson
(d) Let’s call forth the hounds!

5. In the narrative, Mrs. Hale says, “Not having children makes less work—but it makes” what?
(a) A quiet house
(b) For solitude
(c) A lonely place
(d) For peace and serenity

Short Answer Questions

1. Where was the theatrical collaboration that Susan Glaspell and George Cram Cook formed originated?

2. Mrs. Hale remarks that Mrs. Wright did not even belong to what organization?

3. According to the stage directions in the opening of the play, what is Henry Peters’ profession?

4. What do the women find in the fancy box in Mrs. Wright’s sewing basket?

5. Who does Henry Peters say he sent to the farmhouse in the morning to make a fire?

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