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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 broken figure does the narrator describe as “pointing upward from the mantle shelf” in the beginning of “Life in the Iron Mills”?
(a) A goddess
(b) A tiger
(c) A lion
(d) An angel

2. What is the name of the narrator’s husband’s youngest son in “The Wife’s Story”?
(a) Hugh
(b) Peter
(c) Teddy
(d) James

3. Where did Rebecca Harding Davis largely grow up?
(a) Huntington, Virginia
(b) Montclair, New Jersey
(c) Little Rock, Arkansas
(d) Wheeling, West Virginia

4. How many men are in the group of visitors that come through the mill where Hugh works in “Life in the Iron Mills”?
(a) 5-6
(b) 2-3
(c) 10-11
(d) 8-9

5. 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 Hugh’s pocket
(b) In the attic
(c) In her jewelry box
(d) In her apron pocket

Short Answer Questions

1. The narrator’s husband in “The Wife’s Story” tells her when his business fails that it “would have been better I had not trusted the whole to” whom?

2. The narrator in “Life in the Iron Mills” describes Hugh Wolfe as “A morbid, gloomy man, untaught, unled, left to feed his soul in” what?

3. What Jacky’s last name in “The Wife’s Story”?

4. The narrator of “The Wife’s Story” says “It will be enough for me to give you the history of one day, - that of our first coming to” where?

5. The narrator states in “Life in the Iron Mills,” “These great turning-days of life cast no shadow before, slip by unconsciously. Only a trifle, a little turn of the rudder, and the ship goes” where?

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