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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. “Life in the Iron Mills” is regarded by many academics as the beginning of what movement in American literature?
(a) Dadaism
(b) Pulp fiction
(c) Post-modernism
(d) Realism

2. The narrator describes Hugh Wolfe as a furnace-tender at one of whose rolling-mills in “Life in the Iron Mills”?
(a) Maxwell and Thoreau’s
(b) Anderson and Smith’s
(c) Kirby and John’s
(d) Peter and Paul’s

3. Mrs. Palmer gets on a train going where after withdrawing her bonds at the trust company in “Anne”?
(a) Philadelphia
(b) Connecticut
(c) New York
(d) Boston

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What deformity is Deborah said to be afflicted with in “Life in the Iron Mills”?

2. 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?

3. What feeder at the mill does Hugh look down on at the marketplace from his cell in “Life in the Iron Mills”?

4. What kind of fruit does Mrs. Palmer’s farm produce in “Anne”?

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

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