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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. About how old does Mrs. Palmer appear when she looks in the mirror after awakening in “Anne”?
(a) 16
(b) 12
(c) 50
(d) 30

2. What deformity is Deborah said to be afflicted with in “Life in the Iron Mills”?
(a) She is deaf
(b) She is hunchbacked
(c) She is an amputee
(d) She is blind

3. The narrator in “The Wife’s Story” says she grew up in what state?
(a) Vermont
(b) Idaho
(c) Massachusetts
(d) New Hampshire

4. The narrator in “The Wife’s Story” says that her husband and his family were all born where?
(a) Europe
(b) Canada
(c) The West
(d) The East

5. What does Deborah begin to eat for dinner after returning from the cotton mill in the beginning of “Life in the Iron Mills”?
(a) Boiled cabbage
(b) Pork sausage
(c) Haggis and rice
(d) Boiled potatoes

Short Answer Questions

1. What establishment does the narrator describe across the street when she looks out window in the beginning of “Life in the Iron Mills”?

2. What Biblical figure, the son of Isaac, does the narrator denote having been deprived of his birthright in “Life in the Iron Mills”?

3. Deborah tells Hugh when she brings him food at work that she fears the ale is a bit what, in “Life in the Iron Mills”?

4. When Hugh decides to keep the money in “Life in the Iron Mills,” he realizes of his watch at the mill, “He need not go, need never go again, thank God! – shaking off the thought with” what?

5. On what date did Rebecca Harding Davis die?

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