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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 is the name of the publisher’s wife whom Rebecca Harding Davis became close friends with?
(a) Annie Adams Fields
(b) Anne Elizabeth Browning
(c) Margaret Winchield
(d) Mary Richardson

2. By what name does the narrator say she called her husband in their first six months of marriage in “The Wife’s Story”?
(a) James
(b) Michael
(c) Daniel
(d) Andrew

3. The narrator states in the beginning of “Life in the Iron Mills,” “The idiosyncrasy of this town is” what?
(a) Paint
(b) Smoke
(c) Cleanliness
(d) Sunshine

4. Christ is described in “Life in the Iron Mills” as having stood “with the fishermen and harlots by the sea of” what?
(a) Asia
(b) Islam
(c) Judea
(d) Galilee

5. Where do the narrator and her husband live before they move in “The Wife’s Story”?
(a) Ohio
(b) Kansas
(c) Massachusetts
(d) New York

Short Answer Questions

1. The character called Mitchell in “Life in the Iron Mills” is said to be an amateur what?

2. How does the narrator describe Hugh Wolfe’s face in “Life in the Iron Mills”?

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

4. What sentence does Hugh Wolfe receive in “Life in the Iron Mills”?

5. Rebecca Harding and L. Clarke Davis met where?

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