Trifles
PART A: Which of the following best describes a central theme of the text? PART B: Which of the following quotes best supports the answer to Part A?
- A“Well, can you beat the women! Held for murder and worryin’ about her preserves.” ( Paragraph 32)
- B.“It was an awful thing was done in this house that night, Mrs. Hale. Killing a man while he slept, slipping a rope around his neck that choked the life out of him.” ( Paragraph 149)
- C.“The law has got to punish crime, Mrs. Hale.” ( Paragraph 156)
- D“Oh, I wish I’d come over here once in a while! That was a crime! That was a crime! Who’s going to punish that?” ( Paragraph 157)