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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Mitchell claims in “Life in the Iron Mills,” “Reform is born of need, not” what?
(a) Criticism
(b) Empathy
(c) Poverty
(d) Pity

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

3. How does the narrator describe the weather in the opening of “Life in the Iron Mills”?
(a) Sunny
(b) Windy
(c) Arid
(d) Cloudy

4. At what station does Mrs. Palmer get off the train and go to the trust company in “Anne”?
(a) Wall Street station
(b) Times Square station
(c) Pennsylvania Avenue station
(d) Broad Street station

5. When was Rebecca Harding Davis’s last essay, “The Disease of Money-Getting,” published?
(a) 1911
(b) 1798
(c) 1902
(d) 1884

Short Answer Questions

1. The narrator describes the mill workers in the beginning of “Life in the Iron Mills” as “laired in by day in dens of drunkenness and” what?

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

3. The church that Hugh enters on the night he decides to keep the money is described by the narrator of “Life in the Iron Mills” as what?

4. How is Deborah related to Hugh Wolfe in “Life in the Iron Mills”?

5. The narrator in “The Wife’s Story” says that her husband and his family were all born where?

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