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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 Jacky’s last name in “The Wife’s Story”?
(a) Peterson
(b) Swarnoff
(c) Monchard
(d) Prichard

2. What word used in “Life in the Iron Mills” refers to a side of cured pork?
(a) Curry
(b) Haggis
(c) Flitch
(d) Bandy

3. The narrator in “The Wife’s Story” says that her husband and his family were all born where?
(a) The West
(b) Canada
(c) The East
(d) Europe

4. What is the name of the narrator’s husband in “The Wife’s Story”?
(a) Dr. Manning
(b) Dr. Anderson
(c) Dr. Smithfield
(d) Mr. Mason

5. What sentence does Hugh Wolfe receive in “Life in the Iron Mills”?
(a) 19 years hard labor
(b) 2 years parole
(c) 5 years hard labor
(d) 3 years solitary confinement

Short Answer Questions

1. The narrator says that in the long carriage rides she took with her husband in their first six months of marriage, she used to “succeed in coaxing him imperceptibly back to talk of his life” where?

2. One of the visiting men tells the owner’s son at the mill in “Life in the Iron Mills,” “If it were not that you must have heard it so often, I would tell you that your works looks like” what?

3. Who does the narrator’s husband say used to trot Jacky “on his knee on the school-house steps” when she was a baby in “The Wife’s Story”?

4. How does the narrator describe Hugh Wolfe’s face in “Life in the Iron Mills”?

5. The narrator states in “Life in the Iron Mills,” “These great turning-days of life cast no shadow before, slip by unconsciously. Only a trifle, a little turn of the rudder, and the ship goes” where?

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