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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Mrs. Palmer gets on a train going where after withdrawing her bonds at the trust company in “Anne”?
(a) Connecticut
(b) Philadelphia
(c) Boston
(d) New York

3. Mrs. Palmer tells her daughter in “Anne,” “I do not like to see pressed leaves and grasses about in vases. It is like making ornaments of hair cut from” what?
(a) Dead animals
(b) A dead body
(c) Ugly tinsel
(d) Faded animals

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

5. Mrs. Palmer remembers when she wakes up in “Anne” that George Forbes is now what?
(a) A sculpture artist
(b) A famous painter
(c) An opera singer
(d) A famous author

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

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

8. What is the narrator’s name in “The Wife’s Story”?
(a) Anne
(b) Deborah
(c) Hester
(d) Janey

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

10. What servant does Mrs. Palmer give her satchel to and ask him to carry it to the station in “Anne”?
(a) Hugh
(b) Paul
(c) James
(d) Peter

11. On the morning that Mrs. Palmer awakens from her dream of youth in “Anne,” a letter arrives from Mrs. Palmer’s consignees named what in Philadelphia?
(a) Kirby and John
(b) Peters and Smith
(c) Pierce and Wall
(d) Anderson and Williams

12. The narrator in “The Wife’s Story” says there had been a time when she had dreamed of achieving whose stature?
(a) Heidi C. Clark’s
(b) Susan B. Anthony’s
(c) Margaret Fuller’s
(d) Eleanor Roosevelt’s

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

14. What does the narrator say Anne had in her hands when she fell asleep in the beginning of “Anne”?
(a) Yellow daisies
(b) Lilacs
(c) Blueberries
(d) Red roses

15. What kind of fruit does Mrs. Palmer’s farm produce in “Anne”?
(a) Apples
(b) Cherries
(c) Peaches
(d) Pears

Short Answer Questions

1. Mrs. Palmer, when she first awakens in “Anne,” recalls that her voice left her at what age?

2. How long after her marriage does the narrator of “The Wife’s Story” say she and her husband moved?

3. About how old does Mrs. Palmer appear when she looks in the mirror after awakening in “Anne”?

4. A few weeks prior to when the narrator and her husband moved in “The Wife’s Story,” she describes a cool morning in what month?

5. 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”?

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