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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. Waiting for the Verdict is a novel about what?
(a) Pre-Civil War racial tensions
(b) The Mexican American War
(c) The Spanish Inquisition
(d) The Oklahoma Dust Bowl

2. How many children did Rebecca Harding Davis have?
(a) 2
(b) 1
(c) 3
(d) 7

3. Of whom does the narrator say Hugh had found “a Man all- knowing, all-seeing, crowned by Nature, reigning” in “Life in the Iron Mills”?
(a) Mr. Wolfe
(b) Mr. Mitchell
(c) Mr. Clarke
(d) Mr. Kirby

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) Poverty and Godliness
(d) Art and beauty based on memories of his youth

5. Rebecca Harding and L. Clarke Davis met where?
(a) New York, New York
(b) Boston, Massachusetts
(c) Harrisburg, Pennsylvania
(d) Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Short Answer Questions

1. The narrator says in “Life in the Iron Mills,” “About this man Mitchell hung the impalpable atmosphere belonging to the” what?

2. What night of the week is it that Deborah brings Hugh his dinner at the mill in the beginning of “Life in the Iron Mills”?

3. What word used in “Life in the Iron Mills” refers to a crystalline alkaloid used as a pesticide?

4. The narrator in “The Wife’s Story” says she grew up in what state?

5. Who throws Deborah money as the visiting men at the mill depart in “Life in the Iron Mills”?

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