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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the narrator of “The Wife’s Story” say was the work of her life prior to her marriage?
(a) A painting
(b) A sculpture
(c) An opera
(d) A novel

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

3. What word from “Life in the Iron Mills” means given or characterized by joking?
(a) Jocose
(b) Implicit
(c) Extrapolated
(d) Ephemeral

4. Rebecca Harding and L. Clarke Davis met where?
(a) New York, New York
(b) Boston, Massachusetts
(c) Harrisburg, Pennsylvania
(d) Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

5. When was Margret Howth published?
(a) 1798
(b) 1861
(c) 1914
(d) 1884

Short Answer Questions

1. One of the men that visits the mill along with other men in “Life in the Iron Mills” is the son of which of the mill-owners?

2. Dr. May says in “Life in the Iron Mills,” “That is true philosophy. Drift with the stream, because you cannot” what?

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”?

4. Doctor May reads Hugh’s sentence to his wife from the newspaper how long after the night when they discussed the sculpture in “Life in the Iron Mills”?

5. What is the name of the jailer in “Life in the Iron Mills”?

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