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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What character on the train in “Anne” is described as a “fat hunched man with the greasy black whiskers and gaudy chain”?andrew
(a) Mr. Corvill
(b) George Forbes
(c) Job Palmer
(d) Peter

2. Where had Mrs. Palmer made investments in the West, according to the narrator of “Anne”?
(a) Nebraska
(b) Washington
(c) The Dakotas
(d) California

3. Mrs. Palmer tells her daughter Susan that she dreamed she was how old again in the beginning of “Anne”?
(a) 12
(b) 16
(c) 18
(d) 20

4. 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) Aldore
(c) Mintone
(d) Salvini

5. What servant does Mrs. Palmer give her satchel to and ask him to carry it to the station in “Anne”?
(a) Hugh
(b) Paul
(c) Peter
(d) James

Short Answer Questions

1. Mrs. Palmer, when she first awakens in “Anne,” recalls that her voice left her at what age?

2. What does the man on the train refer to Mrs. Palmer’s father’s name as in “Anne”?

3. What character on the train in “Anne” is said to be the “chairman of the Woman’s National Society for the Examination of Prisons”?

4. What does the narrator say her husband bought after their marriage, “thinking to please me,” in “The Wife’s Story”?

5. By what name does the narrator say she called her husband in their first six months of marriage in “The Wife’s Story”?

Short Essay Questions

1. How is Hester’s departure from her family described in “The Wife’s Story”?

2. What was the ultimate changing point in the marriage between Hester and Dr. Manning in “The Wife’s Story”?

3. How would you describe the character of Hester in “The Wife’s Story”? What information is established about Hester in the opening of the story?

4. What does Hester do after leaving her family in “The Wife’s Story”?

5. Why is Hester’s family moving in “The Wife’s Story”? How does Hester feel about the move?

6. How does the plot of “Anne” relate to the life of author Rebecca Harding Davis?

7. How would you describe the ending of “The Wife’s Story”? What happens to Hester?

8. What information does Jacky relate to Hester regarding Dr. Manning’s first wife in “The Wife’s Story”?

9. What is the character of Anne doing in the opening of the last story, “Anne”?

10. Where does Mrs. Palmer travel in “Anne”? How does she fund her travels?

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