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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 does the narrator use to describe Hugh Wolfe’s infancy in “Life in the Iron Mills”?
(a) Starved
(b) Plentiful
(c) Liberated
(d) Joyful

2. Where does Deborah hide the money she’s stolen when Hugh falls asleep after they’ve arrived home from the mill in “Life in the Iron Mills”?
(a) In her jewelry box
(b) In the attic
(c) In Hugh’s pocket
(d) In her apron pocket

3. What Latin phrase, translated as “Hungry and thirsty, his soul faints him” is used in “Life in the Iron Mills”?
(a) Clamat au arian
(b) De profundis clamavi
(c) Semper fidelis
(d) Scribet et libret

4. What word from “Life in the Iron Mills” means given or characterized by joking?
(a) Jocose
(b) Extrapolated
(c) Implicit
(d) Ephemeral

5. When was Rebecca Harding Davis’s last essay, “The Disease of Money-Getting,” published?
(a) 1798
(b) 1911
(c) 1902
(d) 1884

Short Answer Questions

1. How many children did the narrator’s husband have from his first marriage in “The Wife’s Story”?

2. Of Hugh Wolfe, the narrator says in “Life in the Iron Mills,” “His soul within him was smothering to death; he wanted so much, thought so much, and knew” what?

3. What is the name of the narrator’s husband in “The Wife’s Story”?

4. The author of “A Biographical Interpretation” states that Rebecca Harding Davis grew up along what river?

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

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