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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What night of the week is it that Deborah brings Hugh his dinner at the mill in the beginning of “Life in the Iron Mills”?
(a) Tuesday
(b) Sunday
(c) Saturday
(d) Monday

2. The woman who stays behind at the jail after Hugh’s suicide is described as a Quaker or what, “as they call themselves” in “Life in the Iron Mills”?
(a) Friend
(b) Believer
(c) Follower
(d) Pointer

3. What word used in “The Wife’s Story” means unrestrained?
(a) Untrammelled
(b) Excavated
(c) Reconstituted
(d) Indentured

4. Where does the narrator say she keeps the korl statue in the end of “Life in the Iron Mills”?
(a) Behind a curtain
(b) On the front porch
(c) In a bank vault
(d) In a museum

5. What is Mrs. Palmer’s first name in “Anne”?
(a) Candace
(b) Adelaide
(c) Miranda
(d) Nancy

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Deborah go to live after serving her jail sentence in “Life in the Iron Mills”?

2. What does the narrator of “Anne” say that Anne had “ever since she was a baby, and felt it as she did her blood from her feet to her head, and triumphed and was happy in it”?

3. From whom did Deborah presumably steal the money in “Life in the Iron Mills”?

4. Who wrote “A Biographical Interpretation” of Rebecca Harding Davis’s “Life in the Iron Mills”?

5. What does Hugh use to commit suicide in jail in “Life in the Iron Mills”?

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