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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 word used in “The Wife’s Story” means unrestrained?
(a) Untrammelled
(b) Indentured
(c) Reconstituted
(d) Excavated

2. Rebecca Harding and L. Clarke Davis became engaged how long after meeting?
(a) 6 weeks
(b) 1 month
(c) 1 week
(d) 3 months

3. Doctor May reads Hugh’s sentence to his wife from the newspaper how long after the night when they discussed the sculpture in “Life in the Iron Mills”?
(a) 2 weeks
(b) 6 months
(c) 6 weeks
(d) 1 month

4. Rebecca Harding and L. Clarke Davis met where?
(a) New York, New York
(b) Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
(c) Boston, Massachusetts
(d) Harrisburg, Pennsylvania

5. How many centuries ago does the narrator describe Christ rising up from the people in “Life in the Iron Mills”?
(a) 16
(b) 15
(c) 10
(d) 18

Short Answer Questions

1. When was Waiting for the Verdict published?

2. 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?

3. Mitchell claims in “Life in the Iron Mills,” “Reform is born of need, not” what?

4. What sentence does Hugh Wolfe receive in “Life in the Iron Mills”?

5. From whom did Deborah presumably steal the money in “Life in the Iron Mills”?

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