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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In what region of the United States is Trifles set?
(a) The South
(b) The West
(c) The Northeast
(d) The Midwest

2. Remarks about Mr. Wright indicate that he did not do much of what?
(a) Arguing
(b) Staying quiet
(c) Talking
(d) Complaining

3. Mrs. Peters claims that “[t]he law has got to” do what?
(a) Uphold itself
(b) Collect taxes
(c) Punish crime
(d) Be right

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

5. The success of Trifles rests largely on what dramatic/literary device that means the audience is aware of facts not grasped by characters in the play?
(a) Alliteration
(b) Irony
(c) Metaphor
(d) Exposition

Short Answer Questions

1. Mrs. Peters tells Mrs. Hale, “Mr. Henderson said coming out that what was needed for the case was” what?

2. Mrs. Hale remarks that there was a man selling what kind of birds last year?

3. What does Mr. Hale say he is going to town to sell when he stops by the Wrights’ home?

4. Where does Mrs. Peters say she and her husband homesteaded before?

5. Who says, “I wish if they’re going to find any evidence they’d be about it. I don’t like this place”?

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