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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What character is described as “a slight wiry woman” with “a thin nervous face”?
(a) Mrs. Peters
(b) Mrs. Hale
(c) Mrs. Wright
(d) Bessie

3. What character in the play is based on the real-life figure of John Hossack?
(a) George Henderson
(b) John Wright
(c) Henry Peters
(d) Lewis Hale

4. In the narrative, Mrs. Peters says, “Somehow we just don’t see how it is with other folks until” what?
(a) Someone is dead
(b) Something goes wrong
(c) Something happens
(d) Something comes up

5. From where has the County Attorney just returned upon arriving at the farmhouse?
(a) St. Louis
(b) Omaha
(c) Chicago
(d) Little Rock

6. Where does Mr. Hale say Mrs. Wright moves after his companion leaves to phone the authorities?
(a) To the front porch
(b) To a chair in the corner
(c) To the kitchen table
(d) To the bedroom

7. The County Attorney remarks that Mrs. Wright did not have what instinct?
(a) The designer instinct
(b) The child birthing instinct
(c) The money-saving instinct
(d) The homemaking instinct

8. Where is Mrs. Wright discovered when Mr. Hale comes by and discovers the murder?
(a) In the rocking chair
(b) At the kitchen table
(c) On the sofa
(d) By the bedside

9. Who says, “I wish if they’re going to find any evidence they’d be about it. I don’t like this place”?
(a) Mrs. Hale
(b) Mrs. Wright
(c) Mrs. Peters
(d) George Henderson

10. Before they depart, Henry Peters remarks to Mr. Henderson, “I just want you to come in here a minute, George. We ought to take a look at” what?
(a) The doors
(b) The attic
(c) These windows
(d) The basement

11. What word describing the men in Trifles means to behave in an offensively condescending manner?
(a) Adroit
(b) Exacerbating
(c) Interrogating
(d) Patronizing

12. What word does Mrs. Hale refer to Mr. Wright as, which indicates that he was tight with money?
(a) Close
(b) Seedy
(c) Tight
(d) Stingy

13. Who is to take clothing and things to Mrs. Wright at the jail?
(a) Mr. Hale
(b) Bessie
(c) Mrs. Peters
(d) Mrs. Hale

14. Mrs. Peters tells Mrs. Hale that when the boy killed her kitten she would have done what “if they hadn’t held me back”?
(a) Killed myself
(b) Killed him
(c) Hurt him
(d) Run away

15. How many years ago does Mrs. Hale say Mrs. Wright sung in the town choir, prior to her marriage?
(a) 30
(b) 10
(c) 20
(d) 5

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Mrs. Hale’s final line of the play?

2. What character says, “I’d hate to have men coming into my kitchen, snooping around and criticizing”?

3. Mrs. Hale tells Mrs. Peters, “If I was you, I wouldn’t tell her” what?

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

5. What does George Henderson ask the women as the men return from examining outside?

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