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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. A few weeks prior to when the narrator and her husband moved in “The Wife’s Story,” she describes a cool morning in what month?
(a) November
(b) August
(c) September
(d) July

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

3. Rebecca Harding Davis met and became acquainted with whom while staying with Nathanial Hawthorne?
(a) Susan B. Anthony
(b) Henry Thoreau
(c) Ralph Waldo Emerson
(d) Walt Whitman

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

5. 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?
(a) Full of comfort
(b) Beautiful and pure
(c) Available to love
(d) Freedom

Short Answer Questions

1. How long has Deborah stood at the spools at her job in the beginning of “Life in the Iron Mills”?

2. How many children did Rebecca Harding Davis have?

3. What school was Rebecca Harding Davis sent to attend at the age of 14?

4. The narrator in “Life in the Iron Mills” describes Hugh Wolfe as “no favorite in the mill; he had the taint of” what on him?

5. The narrator in the beginning of “Life in the Iron Mills” refers to the reader as “You, Egoist, or Pantheist, or” what?

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