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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Anne.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the name of the narrator’s husband’s old nag that she can hear neighing in the stables in “The Wife’s Story”?
(a) Tinder
(b) Blackie
(c) Petey
(d) Clopper

2. Mrs. Palmer gets on a train going where after withdrawing her bonds at the trust company in “Anne”?
(a) Philadelphia
(b) Boston
(c) New York
(d) Connecticut

3. Where does Mrs. Palmer and her family life in “Anne”?
(a) Connecticut
(b) Mississippi
(c) Delaware
(d) Washington

4. The narrator in “Life in the Iron Mills” describes Hugh Wolfe as “A morbid, gloomy man, untaught, unled, left to feed his soul in” what?
(a) Taverns and brothels and wherever sick men live
(b) Grossness and crime, and hard, grinding labor
(c) Art and beauty based on memories of his youth
(d) Poverty and Godliness

5. Mitchell claims in “Life in the Iron Mills,” “Reform is born of need, not” what?
(a) Criticism
(b) Empathy
(c) Pity
(d) Poverty

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. Of Hugh Wolfe, the narrator says in “Life in the Iron Mills,” “Yet he was kind to her: it was his nature to be kind, even to the very” what?

3. The narrator in the beginning of “Life in the Iron Mills” refers to the reader as “You, Egoist, or Pantheist, or” what?

4. 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?

5. The narrator describes the mill workers in the beginning of “Life in the Iron Mills” as “laired in by day in dens of drunkenness and” what?

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