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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. How many centuries ago does the narrator describe Christ rising up from the people in “Life in the Iron Mills”?
(a) 15
(b) 10
(c) 16
(d) 18

2. What sentence does Hugh Wolfe receive in “Life in the Iron Mills”?
(a) 2 years parole
(b) 5 years hard labor
(c) 3 years solitary confinement
(d) 19 years hard labor

3. How long after her marriage does the narrator of “The Wife’s Story” say she and her husband moved?
(a) 18 months
(b) 5 months
(c) 3 months
(d) 2 and ½ years

4. Where was “Life in the Iron Mills” first published?
(a) The Pennsylvania Review
(b) The Reader’s Digest
(c) The Atlantic Monthly
(d) The New Yorker

5. Janey tells Deborah that “the father” is in the stone house with whom in the beginning of “Life in the Iron Mills”?
(a) Paul
(b) Peters
(c) Haley
(d) Henderson

Short Answer Questions

1. How does the narrator describe the weather in the opening of “Life in the Iron Mills”?

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

3. Rebecca Harding Davis was the eldest of how many children in her family?

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

5. Where do Deborah’s coworkers tell her there a ball tonight in the beginning of “Life in the Iron Mills”?

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