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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. In what year did the author of “A Biographical Interpretation” republish Life in the Iron Mills and Other Stories?
(a) 1992
(b) 1972
(c) 1969
(d) 1988

2. The narrator of “The Wife’s Story” recalls a time in Paris when she had gone to whose studio outside of the city to see her “Horse-Fair”?
(a) Elizabeth Taylor’s
(b) Rosa Bonheur’s
(c) Hester Sander’s
(d) Deborah May’s

3. What does the narrator say her husband bought after their marriage, “thinking to please me,” in “The Wife’s Story”?
(a) A monocle
(b) A cape
(c) A wig
(d) A ring

4. What Greek goddess of love and beauty does the narrator describe a sculpture of in “Life in the Iron Mills”?
(a) Athena
(b) Aphrodite
(c) Achilles
(d) Echo

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of the overseer that comes with the visiting men to the mill in “Life in the Iron Mills”?

2. What word from “Life in the Iron Mills” means given or characterized by joking?

3. By what nickname is Hugh Wolfe called in the mill in “Life in the Iron Mills”?

4. When Hugh decides to keep the money in “Life in the Iron Mills,” he realizes of his watch at the mill, “He need not go, need never go again, thank God! – shaking off the thought with” what?

5. What word does the narrator use in the beginning of “Life in the Iron Mills” to refer to a person who takes up an art, activity, or subject merely for amusement?

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