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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. Christ is described in “Life in the Iron Mills” as having stood “with the fishermen and harlots by the sea of” what?
(a) Galilee
(b) Asia
(c) Judea
(d) Islam

2. What kind of tobacco does the narrator describe the drunken Irishmen puffing on in the beginning of “Life in the Iron Mills”?
(a) Lynchburg tobacco
(b) Lucky Strike tobacco
(c) Williamsburg tobacco
(d) Skydancer tobacco

3. When was Waiting for the Verdict published?
(a) 1839
(b) 1867
(c) 1811
(d) 1898

4. 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

5. Where does the narrator say she keeps the korl statue in the end of “Life in the Iron Mills”?
(a) On the front porch
(b) In a museum
(c) In a bank vault
(d) Behind a curtain

Short Answer Questions

1. What word used in “The Wife’s Story” means unrestrained?

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

3. Dr. May says in “Life in the Iron Mills,” “That is true philosophy. Drift with the stream, because you cannot” what?

4. Where does Deborah go to live after serving her jail sentence in “Life in the Iron Mills”?

5. 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?

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