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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does the narrator say her husband bought after their marriage, “thinking to please me,” in “The Wife’s Story”?
(a) A ring
(b) A cape
(c) A monocle
(d) A wig

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

4. What is the name of the narrator’s husband in “The Wife’s Story”?
(a) Dr. Manning
(b) Dr. Smithfield
(c) Dr. Anderson
(d) Mr. Mason

5. How many children did the narrator’s husband have from his first marriage in “The Wife’s Story”?
(a) 2
(b) 4
(c) 5
(d) 3

6. By what pet name does the narrator recall her husband fondly calling her when they first married in “The Wife’s Story”?
(a) Hetty
(b) Katie
(c) Kitty
(d) Bitty

7. Where had Mrs. Palmer made investments in the West, according to the narrator of “Anne”?
(a) Washington
(b) The Dakotas
(c) Nebraska
(d) California

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

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

10. The narrator states in “Anne” that Mrs. Palmer once went all the way to Philadelphia to hear an Italian stroller named what?
(a) Mintone
(b) Salvini
(c) Aldore
(d) Pafundi

11. The narrator learns in “The Wife’s Story” that her husband’s first wife was addicted to what?
(a) Opium
(b) Benzedrine
(c) Cocaine
(d) Alcohol

12. How long after her marriage does the narrator of “The Wife’s Story” say she and her husband moved?
(a) 5 months
(b) 2 and ½ years
(c) 18 months
(d) 3 months

13. Mrs. Palmer tells her daughter Susan that she dreamed she was how old again in the beginning of “Anne”?
(a) 18
(b) 12
(c) 16
(d) 20

14. 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

15. The narrator describes “Jacky’s rough voice” as being like what in “The Wife’s Story”?
(a) A canary’s
(b) A siren’s
(c) A vulture’s
(d) The cuckoo’s

Short Answer Questions

1. The narrator of “The Wife’s Story” recalls a time in Paris when she had gone to whose studio outside of the city to see her “Horse-Fair”?

2. What is the name of Mrs. Palmer’s servant who tells her a man is there for his money when Mrs. Palmer awakens in “Anne”?

3. What is the name of the narrator’s husband’s youngest son in “The Wife’s Story”?

4. The narrator says that in the long carriage rides she took with her husband in their first six months of marriage, she used to “succeed in coaxing him imperceptibly back to talk of his life” where?

5. Mrs. Palmer discovers that a man named Mr. Corvill is on the train with her in “Anne.” Corvill is noted as the name of a famous what?

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