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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Wife's Story.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The narrator in “The Wife’s Story” says that her husband and his family were all born where?
(a) Canada
(b) The East
(c) The West
(d) Europe

2. Hugh’s legs are describes as being ironed because he made how many attempts at escape from jail in “Life in the Iron Mills”?
(a) 2
(b) 5
(c) 4
(d) 8

3. When was Margret Howth published?
(a) 1884
(b) 1861
(c) 1914
(d) 1798

4. What establishment does the narrator describe across the street when she looks out window in the beginning of “Life in the Iron Mills”?
(a) A tavern
(b) A funeral parlor
(c) A grocer’s shop
(d) A barbershop

5. What deformity is Deborah said to be afflicted with in “Life in the Iron Mills”?
(a) She is an amputee
(b) She is hunchbacked
(c) She is blind
(d) She is deaf

Short Answer Questions

1. Rebecca Harding and L. Clarke Davis met where?

2. The narrator says in “Life in the Iron Mills,” “About this man Mitchell hung the impalpable atmosphere belonging to the” what?

3. The narrator says that in the long carriage rides she took with her husband in their first six months of marriage, she used to “succeed in coaxing him imperceptibly back to talk of his life” where?

4. What does Mitchell refer to as “the cure for all the world’s diseases” in “Life in the Iron Mills”?

5. The church that Hugh enters on the night he decides to keep the money is described by the narrator of “Life in the Iron Mills” as what?

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