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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. What war caused Rebecca Harding Davis to set aside her writing for a time?
(a) The U.S. Civil War
(b) The American Revolution
(c) The Korean War
(d) The French and Indian War

2. Where did Rebecca Harding Davis largely grow up?
(a) Huntington, Virginia
(b) Little Rock, Arkansas
(c) Montclair, New Jersey
(d) Wheeling, West Virginia

3. Where was “Life in the Iron Mills” first published?
(a) The New Yorker
(b) The Pennsylvania Review
(c) The Atlantic Monthly
(d) The Reader’s Digest

4. Of the sculpture discovered by the visitors at the iron mill in “Life in the Iron Mills,” the narrator says, “There was not one line of beauty or grace in it: a nude woman’s form, muscular, grown coarse with labor, the powerful limbs instinct with some one poignant” what?
(a) Plea
(b) Belief
(c) Longing
(d) Pregnancy

5. 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?
(a) Lacquer
(b) Whiskey
(c) The river
(d) Opium

Short Answer Questions

1. How many centuries ago does the narrator describe Christ rising up from the people in “Life in the Iron Mills”?

2. The narrator’s husband in “The Wife’s Story” tells her when his business fails that it “would have been better I had not trusted the whole to” whom?

3. What is Jacky’s relationship to the narrator’s husband in “The Wife’s Story”?

4. Who wrote “A Biographical Interpretation” of Rebecca Harding Davis’s “Life in the Iron Mills”?

5. What is Hugh’s charge for the theft of the money in “Life in the Iron Mills”?

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