Answer:
The correct answer to the question: Which prediction is best supported by Mrs. Hale´s speech and actions?, would be: Mrs. Hale will hide the evidence from the men.
Step-by-step explanation:
"Trifles" is the one act play from Susan Glaspell, that was first presented to the public in 1916. The play narrates the events that take place during a murder investigation on the property of Mr. and Mrs. Wright, as it is suspected that Mrs. Wright might have killed her husband. During the search for information, the group of men and women, including the county attorney and sheriff, the sheriff´s wife, as well as Mr. Hale and his wife, find a series of clues on the issue being investigated. However, the definitive evidence that would have convicted Mrs. Wright is found not by the men, but by the two women, who from the very start were treated condescendingly be the men, as if they were of inferior intelligence. In the end, Mrs. Hale and Mrs. Peters, who find the dead bird, that would have cracked the case open, decide not to inform the men about what they have found, because Mrs. Hale feels that Mr. Wright brought this upon himself for being abusive and cruel to his wife.