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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 lawyer that the judge appoints to Hugh Wolfe in “Life in the Iron Mills”?
(a) Mr. Gibson
(b) Mr. Clarke
(c) Mr. Smith
(d) Mr. May

2. Mrs. Palmer tells her daughter in “Anne,” “I do not like to see pressed leaves and grasses about in vases. It is like making ornaments of hair cut from” what?
(a) Faded animals
(b) Ugly tinsel
(c) A dead body
(d) Dead animals

3. The narrator in “Life in the Iron Mills” describes “man’s law” as that “which seizes on one” what?
(a) Person’s story
(b) Direct clue
(c) Isolated fact
(d) Motive

4. Rebecca Harding Davis is credited with over how many published works?
(a) 500
(b) 20
(c) 100
(d) 50

5. At what time does Deborah return home from the cotton mill in the beginning of “Life in the Iron Mills”?
(a) 11:00
(b) 10:00
(c) 3:00
(d) 1:00

Short Answer Questions

1. The narrator describes the home she lives in with her husband by the river as being what color of farmhouse in “The Wife’s Story”?

2. When was Margret Howth published?

3. Where do Deborah’s coworkers tell her there a ball tonight in the beginning of “Life in the Iron Mills”?

4. 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?

5. When Mrs. Palmer returns from walking in the woods, Susan tells her she must take “four grains of quinine and” what when going to bed in “Anne”?

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