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

2. Who throws Deborah money as the visiting men at the mill depart in “Life in the Iron Mills”?
(a) Mr. Wolfe
(b) Mr. Kirby
(c) Mr. Mitchell
(d) Mr. Clarke

3. Where did Rebecca Harding Davis largely grow up?
(a) Wheeling, West Virginia
(b) Huntington, Virginia
(c) Montclair, New Jersey
(d) Little Rock, Arkansas

4. By what name does the narrator call the “refuse from the ore after the pig-metal is run” in “Life in the Iron Mills”?
(a) Korl
(b) Quartz
(c) Tar
(d) Tarp

5. Where does Deborah say Hugh was born in “Life in the Iron Mills”?
(a) The mountain crags
(b) The flat prairie
(c) The lane moor
(d) The Derbyshire

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the narrator’s name in “The Wife’s Story”?

2. The narrator in “Life in the Iron Mills” describes Hugh Wolfe as “A morbid, gloomy man, untaught, unled, left to feed his soul in” what?

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. By what name does the narrator say she called her husband in their first six months of marriage in “The Wife’s Story”?

5. Robert is said to have what profession in “The Wife’s Story”?

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