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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. How does the narrator describe Hugh Wolfe’s face in “Life in the Iron Mills”?
(a) A round and glowing face
(b) A sly and jovial young man’s face
(c) A meek, woman’s face
(d) A haggard face with slyness like a snake

2. How does the narrator describe the weather in the opening of “Life in the Iron Mills”?
(a) Sunny
(b) Cloudy
(c) Arid
(d) Windy

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

4. The narrator in “The Wife’s Story” says she grew up in what state?
(a) Massachusetts
(b) New Hampshire
(c) Vermont
(d) Idaho

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?
(a) To the river
(b) To the left or the right
(c) To port or to sea
(d) To heaven or hell

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Mitchell refer to as “the cure for all the world’s diseases” in “Life in the Iron Mills”?

2. What is the name of the narrator’s husband in “The Wife’s Story”?

3. Of Hugh Wolfe, the narrator says in “Life in the Iron Mills,” “Yet he was kind to her: it was his nature to be kind, even to the very” what?

4. What does Deborah begin to eat for dinner after returning from the cotton mill in the beginning of “Life in the Iron Mills”?

5. What word from “Life in the Iron Mills” means slow, dull, or sluggish?

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