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

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Give how old Miss Strangeworth tells tourists she is.

71 years

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

A day

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

Roses

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

Pleasant Street

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Give the color of Miss Strangeworth’s eyes.

Blue

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

Heavy Rain

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Miss Strangeworth had a pretty little what by her lip?

Dimple

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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

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

Half a dozen

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

Mr. Lewis

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

Lean Veal Chop

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

Arthur Parker

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

Box of Strawberries

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State Miss Strangeworth’s order of groceries.

Chop, strawberries, cat food, tomato, and tea

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On what day does Miss Strangeworth always buy her tea?

Tuesday

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How much tea does Miss Strangeworth get at the grocery?

Quarter Pound

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Give Mrs. Harper’s first name.

Martha

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

Mrs. Harper

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

Cake Frosting

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

Pocketbook

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

Tonic

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

Cranes

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Give the name of the mother in the Crane family.

Helen Crane

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Give the name of the father in the Crane family.

Don Crane

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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

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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

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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

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

Six months

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

Dance

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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

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

Miss Chandler

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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

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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

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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

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Give how old Linda is.

15 years old

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

Harris

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

Soda Shop

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

Roses

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The color of roses at the Strangeworth House.

Red, white, pink

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

Front Gate

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The Strangeworth House had a look of what washed color?

White

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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

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Give the color of Miss Strangeworth’s usual stationary.

Cream

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What words were engraved upon the cream colored stationary?

Strangeworth House

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

Desk

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

Notepaper

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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

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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

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

Dull Stub of Pencil

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Miss Strangeworth printed her letters in this type of print.

Childish Block Print

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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

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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

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

Bridge Club

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

Green

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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

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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

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

Pink

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

Mrs. Foster

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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

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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

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

Black Leather

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

Pocketbook

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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

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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

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

Dave Harris

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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

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The letter Miss Strangeworth unknowingly dropped was for who?

Don Crane

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

Dave Harris

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

Waffle

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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