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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How long after her marriage does the narrator of “The Wife’s Story” say she and her husband moved?
(a) 18 months
(b) 5 months
(c) 2 and ½ years
(d) 3 months

2. Dr. May says in “Life in the Iron Mills,” “That is true philosophy. Drift with the stream, because you cannot” what?
(a) Face the harshness of the deep
(b) Swim against the current
(c) Answer for the current
(d) Dive deep enough to find bottom

3. The narrator states in “Anne” that Mrs. Palmer once went all the way to Philadelphia to hear an Italian stroller named what?
(a) Salvini
(b) Pafundi
(c) Aldore
(d) Mintone

4. Janey tells Deborah that “the father” is in the stone house with whom in the beginning of “Life in the Iron Mills”?
(a) Paul
(b) Peters
(c) Haley
(d) Henderson

5. What is Jacky’s relationship to the narrator’s husband in “The Wife’s Story”?
(a) She is his wife
(b) She is his aunt
(c) She is his sister
(d) She is his ward

Short Answer Questions

1. What kind of bird does the narrator describe chirping desolately beside her in a cage in the beginning of “Life in the Iron Mills”?

2. Who is the town physician who comes with the visiting men to the mill in “Life in the Iron Mills”?

3. The narrator describes a white bust of whom in the library of their home in “The Wife’s Story”?

4. What is the mill-owner’s son’s reply in French when Dr. May asks him, “Have you many such hands as this? What are you going to do with them? Keep them at puddling iron?”

5. Of Hugh Wolfe, the narrator says in “Life in the Iron Mills,” “Yet he was kind to her: it was his nature to be kind, even to the very” what?

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