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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. The church that Hugh enters on the night he decides to keep the money is described by the narrator of “Life in the Iron Mills” as what?
(a) A somber Gothic pile
(b) A medieval rapture
(c) An epic cathedral
(d) A Gregorian haunt

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

3. The narrator of “The Wife’s Story” recalls a time in Paris when she had gone to whose studio outside of the city to see her “Horse-Fair”?
(a) Rosa Bonheur’s
(b) Hester Sander’s
(c) Elizabeth Taylor’s
(d) Deborah May’s

4. What is Jacky’s relationship to the narrator’s husband in “The Wife’s Story”?
(a) She is his aunt
(b) She is his sister
(c) She is his ward
(d) She is his wife

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of the man that goes about town lighting the lamps at dusk in “Life in the Iron Mills”?

2. What word used in “Life in the Iron Mills” refers to a crystalline alkaloid used as a pesticide?

3. Who was the publisher that accepted “Life in the Iron Mills” immediately and began a long friendship with Rebecca Harding Davis?

4. 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?

5. What kind of bird does the narrator describe chirping desolately beside her in a cage in the beginning of “Life in the Iron Mills”?

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