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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Anne.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Waiting for the Verdict is a novel about what?
(a) The Mexican American War
(b) The Spanish Inquisition
(c) Pre-Civil War racial tensions
(d) The Oklahoma Dust Bowl

2. Where does the narrator say she keeps the korl statue in the end of “Life in the Iron Mills”?
(a) In a bank vault
(b) In a museum
(c) On the front porch
(d) Behind a curtain

3. 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) 2
(b) 8
(c) 4
(d) 5

4. The mill where Hugh Wolfe works makes iron for what in “Life in the Iron Mills”?
(a) Steam ships
(b) Skyscrapers
(c) Railroads
(d) War weaponry

5. How does the narrator describe Janey’s eyes in “Life in the Iron Mills”?
(a) Milesian
(b) Armenian
(c) Mexican
(d) Spanish

Short Answer Questions

1. How many men are in the group of visitors that come through the mill where Hugh works in “Life in the Iron Mills”?

2. What does the narrator of “The Wife’s Story” say was the work of her life prior to her marriage?

3. 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?

4. Mrs. Palmer discovers that a man named Mr. Corvill is on the train with her in “Anne.” Corvill is noted as the name of a famous what?

5. Of the sculpture discovered by the visitors at the iron mill in “Life in the Iron Mills,” the narrator says, “There was not one line of beauty or grace in it: a nude woman’s form, muscular, grown coarse with labor, the powerful limbs instinct with some one poignant” what?

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