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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When Susan tries putting a shawl in Mrs. Palmer in “Anne,” Mrs. Palmer replies, “I am not in my dotage, child, that I cannot walk out without being wrapped up like” what?
(a) A child
(b) A Siberian
(c) An Eskimo
(d) A monkey

2. What Jacky’s last name in “The Wife’s Story”?
(a) Swarnoff
(b) Prichard
(c) Peterson
(d) Monchard

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

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

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

6. 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?
(a) Figure-painter
(b) Author
(c) Opera singer
(d) Politician

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

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

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

10. Who is the woman walking with George across the lawn as Anne drowses in the beginning of “Anne”?
(a) Deborah
(b) Theresa
(c) Sarah
(d) Janey

11. The narrator describes the home she lives in with her husband by the river as being what color of farmhouse in “The Wife’s Story”?
(a) Lavender
(b) Scarlett
(c) Yellow
(d) Chocolate

12. 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) Faded animals
(b) Dead animals
(c) Ugly tinsel
(d) A dead body

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

14. Mrs. Palmer’s son tells her that who will bring the baby over for tea in the beginning of “Anne”?
(a) Jenny
(b) Sarah
(c) Janey
(d) Susan

15. 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”?
(a) A leather briefcase
(b) A morocco case
(c) An alligator suitcase
(d) A wool mitten

Short Answer Questions

1. Mrs. Palmer gets on a train going where after withdrawing her bonds at the trust company in “Anne”?

2. The narrator learns in “The Wife’s Story” that her husband’s first wife was addicted to what?

3. Who was the supposed author of The Imitation of Christ?

4. At what station does Mrs. Palmer get off the train and go to the trust company in “Anne”?

5. What does the man on the train refer to Mrs. Palmer’s father’s name as in “Anne”?

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