A Jury of Her Peers

Question 1

Trifles

Answer 1

1) Noun
2) A thing of little value or importance
3) “women are used to worrying over trifles” (823).

Question 2

Disdainful

Answer 2

1) Adjective
2) Showing lack of respect
3) “Mrs. Hale began to arrange the dirty pans under the sink, which the county attorney’s disdainful push of the foot had deranged” (823).

Question 3

Acquiescence

Answer 3

1) Noun
2) The reluctant acceptance of something without protest 3) “‘No more than their duty,’ said the sheriff’s wife, in her manner of timid acquiescence” (823).

Question 4

Detained

Answer 4

1) Verb
2) Keep from proceeding, hold back
3) “Mrs. Hale stood examining the clothes the woman who was being detained in town said she wanted” (824).

Question 5

Shabby

Answer 5

1) Adjective
2) In poor condition, run down
3) “Holding up a shabby black skirt that bore the marks of much making over” (824).

Question 6

Indecisive

Answer 6

1) Adjective
2) A person not showing or having the ability to make a decision
3) “But next moment she moved, said in her thin, indecisive way” (824).

Question 7

Scrutinize

Answer 7

1) Verb
2) Examine closely and thoroughly
3) “Martha Hale now scrutinized that piece, compared it with the dainty,accurate sewing of the other blocks” (827).

Question 8

Apprehensive

Answer 8

1) Adjective
2) Fearful that something bad will happen
3 ) “their eyes met- startled, questioning, apprehensive” (834).

Question 9

Incisively

Answer 9

1) Adjective
2) Shows good understanding in a clear direct way
3) “‘Maybe they would,’ muttered Mrs. Hale- ‘Maybe they wouldn’t’ ‘No Peters,’ saidthe county attorney incisively” (833).

Question 10

Evasion

Answer 10

1) Noun
2) The action of avoiding something
3) “There was a moment when they held each other in a steady, burning look in which there was no evasion” (833).

Question 11

Facetiously

Answer 11

1) Noun
2) Joking about something inappropriately
3) “‘Well, Henry,’ said the court attorney facetiously,” (834).