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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many years in jail is Deborah sentenced in “Life in the Iron Mills”?
(a) 18
(b) 10
(c) 5
(d) 3

2. Rebecca Harding Davis met and became acquainted with whom while staying with Nathanial Hawthorne?
(a) Walt Whitman
(b) Henry Thoreau
(c) Susan B. Anthony
(d) Ralph Waldo Emerson

3. How many children did the narrator’s husband have from his first marriage in “The Wife’s Story”?
(a) 4
(b) 3
(c) 2
(d) 5

4. Rebecca Harding Davis was the eldest of how many children in her family?
(a) 5
(b) 3
(c) 2
(d) 4

5. In what year did the author of “A Biographical Interpretation” republish Life in the Iron Mills and Other Stories?
(a) 1992
(b) 1988
(c) 1972
(d) 1969

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of the narrator’s husband’s youngest son in “The Wife’s Story”?

2. What does Hugh use to commit suicide in jail in “Life in the Iron Mills”?

3. What does the narrator say Anne had in her hands when she fell asleep in the beginning of “Anne”?

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

5. Robert is said to have what profession in “The Wife’s Story”?

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