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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. Hugh’s legs are describes as being ironed because he made how many attempts at escape from jail in “Life in the Iron Mills”?
(a) 8
(b) 5
(c) 4
(d) 2

2. Where do the narrator and her husband live before they move in “The Wife’s Story”?
(a) Ohio
(b) Kansas
(c) New York
(d) Massachusetts

3. Where was “Life in the Iron Mills” first published?
(a) The Atlantic Monthly
(b) The Pennsylvania Review
(c) The New Yorker
(d) The Reader’s Digest

4. What word does the narrator use to describe Hugh Wolfe’s infancy in “Life in the Iron Mills”?
(a) Joyful
(b) Starved
(c) Plentiful
(d) Liberated

5. Rebecca Harding Davis is credited with over how many published works?
(a) 20
(b) 100
(c) 50
(d) 500

Short Answer Questions

1. The narrator describes her baby girl as what in “The Wife’s Story”?

2. Whom does Deborah feel a pang of jealousy about as she lay on the ash heap at Hugh’s job in “Life in the Iron Mills”?

3. Waiting for the Verdict is a novel about what?

4. The narrator says in “Life in the Iron Mills,” “Man cannot live by” what?

5. What is Hugh’s charge for the theft of the money in “Life in the Iron Mills”?

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