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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 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?
(a) Africa
(b) South America
(c) Antarctica
(d) Europe

2. What Latin phrase, translated as “Hungry and thirsty, his soul faints him” is used in “Life in the Iron Mills”?
(a) De profundis clamavi
(b) Clamat au arian
(c) Semper fidelis
(d) Scribet et libret

3. The narrator describes the mill workers in the beginning of “Life in the Iron Mills” as “laired in by day in dens of drunkenness and” what?
(a) Tyranny
(b) Misery
(c) Rebellion
(d) Infamy

4. Whom does Deborah feel a pang of jealousy about as she lay on the ash heap at Hugh’s job in “Life in the Iron Mills”?
(a) Janey
(b) Old Wolfe
(c) Sarah
(d) Mr. Mitchell

5. How many children did the narrator’s husband have from his first marriage in “The Wife’s Story”?
(a) 3
(b) 5
(c) 4
(d) 2

Short Answer Questions

1. On what date were L. Clarke Davis and Rebecca Harding Davis married?

2. On what date did Rebecca Harding Davis die?

3. Rebecca Harding and L. Clarke Davis met where?

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

5. What is the name of the man that goes about town lighting the lamps at dusk in “Life in the Iron Mills”?

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