1. By what name does the narrator say she called her husband in their first six months of marriage in “The Wife’s Story”?
(a) Michael
(b) James
(c) Daniel
(d) Andrew

2. The narrator states in “Anne” that Mrs. Palmer once went all the way to Philadelphia to hear an Italian stroller named what?
(a) Pafundi
(b) Mintone
(c) Aldore
(d) Salvini

3. 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?
(a) A Gregorian haunt
(b) An epic cathedral
(c) A somber Gothic pile
(d) A medieval rapture

4. What character on the train in “Anne” is said to be the “chairman of the Woman’s National Society for the Examination of Prisons”?
(a) Miss James
(b) Mrs. Ames
(c) Mrs. Sanders
(d) Mrs. Smith

5. Mrs. Palmer, when she first awakens in “Anne,” recalls that her voice left her at what age?
(a) 18
(b) 22
(c) 12
(d) 20

Short Answer Questions

1. Of Deborah, the narrator says in “Life in the Iron Mills,” “Perhaps the weak, flaccid wretch had some stimulant in her pale life to keep her up—some love or hope, it might be, or urgent need. When that stimulant was gone, she would take to” what?

2. What kind of bird does the narrator describe chirping desolately beside her in a cage in the beginning of “Life in the Iron Mills”?

3. What is the name of the jailer in “Life in the Iron Mills”?

4. Rebecca Harding and L. Clarke Davis became engaged how long after meeting?

5. What word used in “The Wife’s Story” means unrestrained?

(see the answer key)

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