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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Rebecca Harding Davis supported her young family by working as an editor for what publication?
(a) The New York Times
(b) The Philadelphia Inquirer
(c) The Boston Globe
(d) The Washington Journal

2. What does the narrator say her husband bought after their marriage, “thinking to please me,” in “The Wife’s Story”?
(a) A wig
(b) A cape
(c) A ring
(d) A monocle

3. What is the name of the narrator’s husband’s old nag that she can hear neighing in the stables in “The Wife’s Story”?
(a) Blackie
(b) Tinder
(c) Petey
(d) Clopper

4. Rebecca Harding and L. Clarke Davis became engaged how long after meeting?
(a) 1 week
(b) 1 month
(c) 6 weeks
(d) 3 months

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Mrs. Palmer gets on a train going where after withdrawing her bonds at the trust company in “Anne”?

2. The narrator in “The Wife’s Story” says she grew up in what state?

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

4. What night of the week is it that Deborah brings Hugh his dinner at the mill in the beginning of “Life in the Iron Mills”?

5. 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?

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