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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. 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

3. What is the name of the narrator’s husband’s youngest son in “The Wife’s Story”?
(a) Teddy
(b) James
(c) Peter
(d) Hugh

4. On what date were L. Clarke Davis and Rebecca Harding Davis married?
(a) March 5, 1863
(b) April 3, 1869
(c) March 12, 1885
(d) September 2, 1905

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

Short Answer Questions

1. The narrator states in the beginning of “Life in the Iron Mills,” “The idiosyncrasy of this town is” what?

2. Rebecca Harding and L. Clarke Davis met where?

3. What does the narrator say her husband bought after their marriage, “thinking to please me,” in “The Wife’s Story”?

4. What was Mrs. Palmer’s husband’s name in “Anne”?

5. Whom does Deborah feel a pang of jealousy about as she lay on the ash heap at Hugh’s job in “Life in the Iron Mills”?

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