501 Critical Reading Questions

a.
Mrs. Wright killed the bird.
b.
Mr. Wright killed the bird, and Mrs. Wright killed him.
c.
they would get in trouble if the sheriff found out they were
looking around in the kitchen.
d.
there’s a secret message hidden in the quilt.
e.
they might be Mrs. Wright’s next victims.
289.
The stage directions in lines 83–86 suggest that
a.
the women are mistaken in their conclusion.
b.
the women will tell the men what they found.
c.
the women will confront Mrs. Wright.
d.
the women will keep their discovery a secret.
e.
the men had been eavesdropping on the women.
Questions 290–298 are based on the following passages.
In Passage 1, an excerpt from Mary Shelley’s
Frankenstein
, Victor
Frankenstein explains his motive for creating his creature. In Passage 2, an