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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 Deborah go to live after serving her jail sentence in “Life in the Iron Mills”?
(a) With her mother
(b) With Old Wolfe
(c) With Janey and her husband
(d) With the Quakers

3. The narrator in “Life in the Iron Mills” describes “man’s law” as that “which seizes on one” what?
(a) Direct clue
(b) Person’s story
(c) Motive
(d) Isolated fact

4. How long has Deborah stood at the spools at her job in the beginning of “Life in the Iron Mills”?
(a) 12 hours
(b) 6 hours
(c) 10 hours
(d) 8 hours

5. What establishment does the narrator describe across the street when she looks out window in the beginning of “Life in the Iron Mills”?
(a) A barbershop
(b) A tavern
(c) A grocer’s shop
(d) A funeral parlor

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was the publisher that accepted “Life in the Iron Mills” immediately and began a long friendship with Rebecca Harding Davis?

2. Where does the narrator say she keeps the korl statue in the end of “Life in the Iron Mills”?

3. 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”?

4. 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?

5. 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?

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