49 pages 1 hour read

Susan Glaspell

A Jury of Her Peers

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1917

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Answer Key

Reading Check

1. Mr. Wright (Paragraph 42)

2. Strangled by rope (Paragraph 47)

3. A dead canary (Paragraph 224)

4. In custody (Paragraph 74)

5.  A motive (Paragraph 142)

Short Answer

1. The poorly, wildly stitched patch of the quilt shows how upset Mrs. Wright was. (Paragraph 169)

2. She laments that she didn't visit Mrs. Wright even though they lived so close to each other. (Various paragraphs)

3. She describes him as a good man by society’s standards but one who is "like a raw wind that gets to the bone." (Paragraph 204)

4. They realize that Mr. Wright had wrung the bird’s neck, which might be the motive for Mrs. Wright to have killed her husband. (Paragraph 229)