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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. 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?
(a) Beggars in the streets
(b) Rats that swarmed the cellar
(c) Police that hold him down
(d) Dog that bit him

2. Waiting for the Verdict is a novel about what?
(a) The Mexican American War
(b) The Spanish Inquisition
(c) The Oklahoma Dust Bowl
(d) Pre-Civil War racial tensions

3. The narrator says in “Life in the Iron Mills,” “Man cannot live by” what?
(a) Love alone
(b) Work alone
(c) Philosophy alone
(d) Money alone

4. What word from “Life in the Iron Mills” means slow, dull, or sluggish?
(a) Torrid
(b) Tainted
(c) Torpid
(d) Trepid

5. According to the author of “A Biographical Interpretation,” Rebecca Harding Davis wrote an article speaking out against what movement?
(a) The prohibition movement
(b) The abolitionist movement
(c) The women’s rights movement
(d) The American Realism movement

Short Answer Questions

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

2. On what date were L. Clarke Davis and Rebecca Harding Davis married?

3. The narrator describes the mill workers in the beginning of “Life in the Iron Mills” as “laired in by day in dens of drunkenness and” what?

4. What word from “Life in the Iron Mills” means the state of being at rest, calm, or asleep?

5. The narrator in “The Wife’s Story” says there had been a time when she had dreamed of achieving whose stature?

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