The Possibility of Evil - Shirley Jackson

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In the first line of the story, it is said that Miss Adela Strangeworth stepped along which street on her way to get groceries?

Main Street

Give how old Miss Strangeworth tells tourists she is.

71 years

Miss Strangeworth liked to tell tourists she had never spent more than this amount of time outside the town her whole life.

A day

Tourists sometimes passed through town and admired this flower of Miss Strangeworth’s.

Roses

Miss Strangeworth’s grandfather built the first house on which street?

Pleasant Street

Give the color of Miss Strangeworth’s eyes.

Blue

At the beginning of the story, it is stated that this was what the weather was like the night before.

Heavy Rain

Miss Strangeworth had a pretty little what by her lip?

Dimple

As Miss Strangeworth tells tourists, what family member of hers planted the roses by the house on Pleasant Street. These roses were then tended to by Miss Strangeworth and her mother.

Grandmother

When Miss Strangeworth went into the grocery, how many people turned away from the shelves and counters to greet her?

Half a dozen

Who was the last person Miss Strangeworth greeted at the grocery, where she asked him for a lean veal chop?

Mr. Lewis

What does Miss Strangeworth first get at the grocery and ask Mr. Lewis for?

Lean Veal Chop

According to Mr. Lewis, what man brought in strawberries from his garden in the morning?

Arthur Parker

Give the item that Miss Strangeworth asks for at the grocery, causing Mr. Lewis to look worried.

Box of Strawberries

State Miss Strangeworth’s order of groceries.

Chop, strawberries, cat food, tomato, and tea

On what day does Miss Strangeworth always buy her tea?

Tuesday

How much tea does Miss Strangeworth get at the grocery?

Quarter Pound

Give Mrs. Harper’s first name.

Martha

After getting groceries, Miss Strangeworth moved slightly to make room for who at the counter?

Mrs. Harper

Mrs. Harper explained to Miss Strangeworth that the grocery had ran out of sugar for her what?

Cake Frosting

After Mrs. Harper and Miss Strangeworth first meet in the story, Mrs. Harper’s hand shook as she opened what?

Pocketbook

After she saw Mrs. Harper’s hand shake, Miss Strangeworth thinks that Mrs. Harper could use a good, strong, what?

Tonic

Once Miss Strangeworth leaves the grocery store, she sees what family, who she decides to talk with?

Cranes

Give the name of the mother in the Crane family.

Helen Crane

Give the name of the father in the Crane family.

Don Crane

According to Miss Strangeworth, the Crane’s child will expect luxury her whole life. She says this partly because of what delicately embroidered thing?

Baby Cap

According to Miss Strangeworth, the Crane’s child will expect luxury her whole life. She says this partly because of what lace-edged thing?

Carriage Cover

In response to Miss Strangeworth saying that her child will expect luxury her whole life, Helen Crane says that she wants her child to feel like a what?

Princess

Helen Crane says her daughter will be how old next Tuesday?

Six months

Miss Strangeworth says to Helen Crane that her husband must be upset that their daughter has not yet begun learning what skill?

Dance

After finishing her conversation with Helen Crane, Miss Strangeworth goes down the street to ask who about why he wasn’t riding in his dad’s shiny car?

Billy Moore

Give the name of the librarian who Miss Strangeworth talked with about ordering new novels.

Miss Chandler

Miss Strangeworth noticed that Miss Chandler had not taken much trouble with what in the morning, causing her to be disappointed due to its sloppiness.

Her Hair

Give the name of the family who had a 15 year old who ran down her house’s front walk all the way to school.

Stewarts

Miss Strangeworth thought many people seemed disturbed recently, including the Stewarts’ 15 year old who had run crying down her own front walk all the way to school.

Linda

Give how old Linda is.

15 years old

People around town thought that Linda might have had a fight with a boy from which family?

Harris

Linda and the Harris boy that people suspected fought her, met after school at this shop, looking grim and bleak.

Soda Shop

Give the flower that was at the Strangeworth House, and which Miss Strangeworth tended to.

Roses

The color of roses at the Strangeworth House.

Red, white, pink

Miss Strangeworth always stopped where in order to admire her house?

Front Gate

The Strangeworth House had a look of what washed color?

White

After returning home from her grocery trip, Miss Strangeworth put her groceries in the kitchen and then went into which room, which had a bowl of red roses on a table?

Sitting Room

Give the color of Miss Strangeworth’s usual stationary.

Cream

What words were engraved upon the cream colored stationary?

Strangeworth House

Give this object which was in the corner of Miss Strangeworth’s sitting room and she unlocks with a key to get notepaper.

Desk

Inside her desk, Miss Strangeworth kept this inside incase she might feel like writing letters.

Notepaper

Everyone in town used what for tucking away recipes, keeping odd little things in, or even to hold cookies in the school lunch boxes?

Matching Envelopes

Miss Strangeworth’s desk held these two types of pens, which she didn’t use, instead opting for a pencil.

Trimmed Quill Pen and Gold-Frosted Fountain Pen

Miss Strangeworth always used this when she wrote her letters, rather than using a fancy pen.

Dull Stub of Pencil

Miss Strangeworth printed her letters in this type of print.

Childish Block Print

On what colored sheet did Miss Strangeworth write, “Didn’t you every see an idiot child before? Some people just shouldn’t have children, should they?”

Pink

Miss Strangeworth wrote a letter to who on a green sheet of paper, writing, “Have you yet found out yet what they were all laughing about after you left the bridge club on Thursday? Or is the wife really the last one to know?”

Mrs. Harper

In one letter to Mrs. Harper, Miss Strangeworth says that people were laughing after Mrs. Harper left what club on Thursday?

Bridge Club

Which color of paper did Miss Strangeworth use in her letter to Mrs. Harper about people laughing after she left the bridge club?

Green

Mr. Lewis would never have imagine that who might be lifting petty cash from the store register, if not for Miss Strangeworth’s letters?

Grandson

The narrator states it was far more sensible for Miss Chandler to wonder about what whose wife had really died of than to take a chance on not knowing?

Mr. Shelley

What colored envelope and paper did Miss Strangeworth use in her letter to Don Crane?

Pink

Miss Strangeworth selected a blue sheet and wrote a letter about doctors to which old woman, who had an operation next month?

Mrs. Foster

In her letter to Mrs. Foster, Miss Strangeworth used a blue sheet and wrote that if this doctor messed up an operation, he would not care as he would still get paid from her and her nephew.

Doctor Burns

After writing to Mrs. Foster, Miss Strangeworth wanted to write to the head of the school board to ask how a teacher like Billy Moore’s father could afford a new convertible. Give the subject that Billy Moore’s father taught.

Chemistry

Give both the color and material of Miss Strangeworth’s pocketbook.

Black Leather

Give what object Miss Strangeworth brought alongside her during her evening walk.

Pocketbook

The new post office was the only place Miss Strangeworth could mail her letters. Give the color of the letters on the post office, alongside its red brick.

Silver

As she was about to take out the letters of her pocketbook by the post office, Miss Strangeworth hears the voice of which girl, who was crying?

Linda Stewart

Give the full name of the Harris boy who Linda was supposedly fighting with.

Dave Harris

How many letters did Miss Strangeworth try to slip into the post office slot, with her being unaware that the last one fell to her feet rather than inside?

Three

The letter Miss Strangeworth unknowingly dropped was for who?

Don Crane

Who tried to call Miss Strangeworth to tell her she had dropped a letter?

Dave Harris

The day after she mailed her letters, Miss Strangeworth had what for breakfast?

Waffle

The day after she mailed her letters, Miss Strangeworth found mail on the hall floor, which included a bill, the morning paper, and a letter in this colored envelope.

Green