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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. What word used in “Life in the Iron Mills” refers to a side of cured pork?
(a) Curry
(b) Flitch
(c) Haggis
(d) Bandy

2. The church that Hugh enters on the night he decides to keep the money is described by the narrator of “Life in the Iron Mills” as what?
(a) A medieval rapture
(b) A Gregorian haunt
(c) An epic cathedral
(d) A somber Gothic pile

3. Of Hugh Wolfe, the narrator says in “Life in the Iron Mills,” “Yet he was kind to her: it was his nature to be kind, even to the very” what?
(a) Rats that swarmed the cellar
(b) Beggars in the streets
(c) Dog that bit him
(d) Police that hold him down

4. Rebecca Harding and L. Clarke Davis became engaged how long after meeting?
(a) 3 months
(b) 1 week
(c) 6 weeks
(d) 1 month

5. What is Jacky’s relationship to the narrator’s husband in “The Wife’s Story”?
(a) She is his sister
(b) She is his aunt
(c) She is his ward
(d) She is his wife

Short Answer Questions

1. The narrator in “Life in the Iron Mills” says that it is nearly how long since the Wolfes lived in the boarding house in the beginning of the story?

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

3. Rebecca Harding Davis is credited with over how many published works?

4. What does Jacky take out from her pocket and show the narrator when she discusses the narrator’s husband’s past in “The Wife’s Story”?

5. The narrator describes the mill workers in the beginning of “Life in the Iron Mills” as “laired in by day in dens of drunkenness and” what?

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