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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 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”?
(a) An alligator suitcase
(b) A leather briefcase
(c) A wool mitten
(d) A morocco case

2. Where does the narrator say she keeps the korl statue in the end of “Life in the Iron Mills”?
(a) In a bank vault
(b) In a museum
(c) On the front porch
(d) Behind a curtain

3. From whom did Deborah presumably steal the money in “Life in the Iron Mills”?
(a) Dr. May
(b) Mr. Wolfe
(c) Mr. Mitchell
(d) Mr. Kirby

4. One of the men that visits the mill along with other men in “Life in the Iron Mills” is the son of which of the mill-owners?
(a) Mr. Jones
(b) Mr. Peters
(c) Mr. Kirby
(d) Mr. May

5. What war caused Rebecca Harding Davis to set aside her writing for a time?
(a) The American Revolution
(b) The Korean War
(c) The U.S. Civil War
(d) The French and Indian War

Short Answer Questions

1. Deborah tells Hugh when she brings him food at work that she fears the ale is a bit what, in “Life in the Iron Mills”?

2. How many centuries ago does the narrator describe Christ rising up from the people in “Life in the Iron Mills”?

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

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

5. What does Mitchell refer to as “the cure for all the world’s diseases” in “Life in the Iron Mills”?

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