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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. The character called Mitchell in “Life in the Iron Mills” is said to be an amateur what?
(a) Comedian
(b) Opera singer
(c) Hypnotist
(d) Gymnast

2. What is the name of the publisher’s wife whom Rebecca Harding Davis became close friends with?
(a) Anne Elizabeth Browning
(b) Annie Adams Fields
(c) Mary Richardson
(d) Margaret Winchield

3. The narrator says in “Life in the Iron Mills,” “Man cannot live by” what?
(a) Money alone
(b) Love alone
(c) Philosophy alone
(d) Work alone

4. How many years in jail is Deborah sentenced in “Life in the Iron Mills”?
(a) 5
(b) 3
(c) 10
(d) 18

5. Mitchell says of the laborers at the iron mill in “Life in the Iron Mills,” “Let them have a clear idea of the rights of the soul, and I’ll venture next week they’ll” what?
(a) Quit for a life of poetry
(b) Bludgeon you for your kindness
(c) Strike for higher wages
(d) Strike out to the sea

Short Answer Questions

1. Rebecca Harding Davis is credited with over how many published works?

2. The mill where Hugh works in “Life in the Iron Mills” is described as being by the river and how far below the city-limits?

3. Where does Deborah say Hugh was born in “Life in the Iron Mills”?

4. The narrator in “The Wife’s Story” says that her husband and his family were all born where?

5. A few weeks prior to when the narrator and her husband moved in “The Wife’s Story,” she describes a cool morning in what month?

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