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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The narrator describes “Jacky’s rough voice” as being like what in “The Wife’s Story”?
(a) A canary’s
(b) The cuckoo’s
(c) A vulture’s
(d) A siren’s

2. When was Waiting for the Verdict published?
(a) 1839
(b) 1867
(c) 1811
(d) 1898

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

4. The narrator in “Life in the Iron Mills” describes Hugh Wolfe’s father as being an immigrant from where?
(a) Scotland
(b) Ireland
(c) Wales
(d) Germany

5. The narrator tells the reader in the beginning of “Life in the Iron Mills,” I will tell you plainly that I have a great hope; and I bring it to you to be” what?
(a) Tested
(b) Digested
(c) Remembered
(d) Embraced

Short Answer Questions

1. What word used in “Life in the Iron Mills” refers to a side of cured pork?

2. 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?

3. What word used in “The Wife’s Story” means unrestrained?

4. What nonprofit literary publisher published Life in the Iron Mills and Other Stories, including “A Biographical Interpretation”?

5. What is the name of the publisher’s wife whom Rebecca Harding Davis became close friends with?

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