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

2. The narrator’s husband in “The Wife’s Story” tells her when his business fails that it “would have been better I had not trusted the whole to” whom?
(a) Knopps
(b) Hedwall
(c) Williams
(d) Morgans

3. The mill-owner’s son tells his companions in “Life in the Iron Mills,” “If I had the making of men, these men who do the lowest part of the world’s work should be” what?
(a) Robots
(b) Put out of their misery
(c) Slaves
(d) Machines

4. What school was Rebecca Harding Davis sent to attend at the age of 14?
(a) Washington Female Seminary
(b) St. Mary School for Young Women
(c) Anderson Miller Women’s School
(d) St. Jude Episcopal School for Girls

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?
(a) Europe
(b) Antarctica
(c) Africa
(d) South America

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Jacky’s relationship to the narrator’s husband in “The Wife’s Story”?

2. When was Rebecca Harding Davis born?

3. How does the narrator describe Janey’s eyes in “Life in the Iron Mills”?

4. Of Deborah’s thoughts on Hugh in “Life in the Iron Mills,” the narrator says, “She knew, that, down under all the vileness and coarseness of his life, there was a groping passion for whatever was” what?

5. The narrator in “The Wife’s Story” says she grew up in what state?

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