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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. A few weeks prior to when the narrator and her husband moved in “The Wife’s Story,” she describes a cool morning in what month?
(a) July
(b) September
(c) August
(d) November

2. What word from “Life in the Iron Mills” means the state of being at rest, calm, or asleep?
(a) Parlance
(b) Denouement
(c) Interim
(d) Repose

3. What word used in “The Wife’s Story” means unrestrained?
(a) Reconstituted
(b) Untrammelled
(c) Excavated
(d) Indentured

4. Who is the town physician who comes with the visiting men to the mill in “Life in the Iron Mills”?
(a) Dr. Clarke
(b) Dr. Wolfe
(c) Dr. May
(d) Dr. Mitchell

5. What does Mitchell refer to as “the cure for all the world’s diseases” in “Life in the Iron Mills”?
(a) Beauty
(b) Honor
(c) Money
(d) Justice

Short Answer Questions

1. The narrator describes a white bust of whom in the library of their home in “The Wife’s Story”?

2. What word does the narrator use to describe Hugh Wolfe’s infancy in “Life in the Iron Mills”?

3. The narrator of “The Wife’s Story” recalls a time in Paris when she had gone to whose studio outside of the city to see her “Horse-Fair”?

4. 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?

5. The narrator in “The Wife’s Story” says that her husband and his family were all born where?

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