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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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?”
(a) Laissez faire
(b) Ce n’est pas mon affaire
(c) Ce n’est pas les bons temps
(d) Laissez les bons temps roules

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

3. Who throws Deborah money as the visiting men at the mill depart in “Life in the Iron Mills”?
(a) Mr. Mitchell
(b) Mr. Clarke
(c) Mr. Wolfe
(d) Mr. Kirby

4. What is the name of the publisher’s wife whom Rebecca Harding Davis became close friends with?
(a) Mary Richardson
(b) Anne Elizabeth Browning
(c) Margaret Winchield
(d) Annie Adams Fields

5. When Mrs. Palmer returns from walking in the woods, Susan tells her she must take “four grains of quinine and” what when going to bed in “Anne”?
(a) A spoon of cough syrup
(b) A hot lemonade
(c) A dram of whisky
(d) A cookie

Short Answer Questions

1. The narrator in “The Wife’s Story” says she grew up in what state?

2. What Jacky’s last name in “The Wife’s Story”?

3. The narrator learns in “The Wife’s Story” that her husband’s first wife was addicted to what?

4. What war caused Rebecca Harding Davis to set aside her writing for a time?

5. What kind of tobacco does the narrator describe the drunken Irishmen puffing on in the beginning of “Life in the Iron Mills”?

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