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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Anne.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The narrator describes her baby girl as what in “The Wife’s Story”?
(a) A weasel-faced little mortal
(b) A bounding ball of utter joy
(c) A colicky and silent child
(d) A snaky and sneaky rascal

2. The narrator learns in “The Wife’s Story” that her husband’s first wife was addicted to what?
(a) Alcohol
(b) Cocaine
(c) Opium
(d) Benzedrine

3. What action is referenced in “Life in the Iron Mills” as “the peculiar action of a man dying of thirst”?
(a) Slinking
(b) Clutching
(c) Pursing
(d) Clinging

4. What nonprofit literary publisher published Life in the Iron Mills and Other Stories, including “A Biographical Interpretation”?
(a) Amazon Publishing Company
(b) The Feminist Press
(c) Penguin Books
(d) Simon and Schuster

5. 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 lion
(c) A tiger
(d) An angel

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does the narrator’s husband say used to trot Jacky “on his knee on the school-house steps” when she was a baby in “The Wife’s Story”?

2. The narrator says in “Life in the Iron Mills,” “About this man Mitchell hung the impalpable atmosphere belonging to the” what?

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

4. What is the name of the publisher’s wife whom Rebecca Harding Davis became close friends with?

5. The narrator tells the reader in the beginning of “Life in the Iron Mills,” I will tell you plainly that I have a great hope; and I bring it to you to be” what?

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