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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In what year did the author of “A Biographical Interpretation” republish Life in the Iron Mills and Other Stories?
(a) 1988
(b) 1969
(c) 1972
(d) 1992

2. What does the narrator say Anne had in her hands when she fell asleep in the beginning of “Anne”?
(a) Blueberries
(b) Yellow daisies
(c) Lilacs
(d) Red roses

3. On what date did Rebecca Harding Davis die?
(a) September 16, 1889
(b) September 29, 1910
(c) October 3, 1896
(d) July 7, 1901

4. Where did the author of “A Biographical Interpretation” supposedly find a collection of Rebecca Harding Davis’s works?
(a) A junk shop
(b) A feminist bookstore
(c) Her mother’s attic
(d) A rare bookstore

5. What is the name of the jailer in “Life in the Iron Mills”?
(a) Peters
(b) Williams
(c) Andrews
(d) Haley

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What kind of tobacco does the narrator describe the drunken Irishmen puffing on in the beginning of “Life in the Iron Mills”?

3. Where does Mrs. Palmer and her family life in “Anne”?

4. Mrs. Palmer tells her daughter in “Anne,” “I do not like to see pressed leaves and grasses about in vases. It is like making ornaments of hair cut from” what?

5. What is the name of the overseer that comes with the visiting men to the mill in “Life in the Iron Mills”?

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