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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Of Hugh Wolfe, the narrator says in “Life in the Iron Mills,” “His soul within him was smothering to death; he wanted so much, thought so much, and knew” what?
(a) Only art
(b) Only himself
(c) So little
(d) Nothing

2. What broken figure does the narrator describe as “pointing upward from the mantle shelf” in the beginning of “Life in the Iron Mills”?
(a) An angel
(b) A goddess
(c) A lion
(d) A tiger

3. Rebecca Harding Davis supported her young family by working as an editor for what publication?
(a) The Washington Journal
(b) The Philadelphia Inquirer
(c) The New York Times
(d) The Boston Globe

4. By what name does the narrator say she called her husband in their first six months of marriage in “The Wife’s Story”?
(a) Michael
(b) James
(c) Andrew
(d) Daniel

5. The narrator describes a white bust of whom in the library of their home in “The Wife’s Story”?
(a) Athena
(b) Psyche
(c) Echo
(d) Aphrodite

Short Answer Questions

1. Where was “Life in the Iron Mills” first published?

2. What does Jacky take out from her pocket and show the narrator when she discusses the narrator’s husband’s past in “The Wife’s Story”?

3. 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?

4. 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”?

5. What is the name of the lawyer that the judge appoints to Hugh Wolfe in “Life in the Iron Mills”?

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