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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What is the name of the narrator’s husband’s old nag that she can hear neighing in the stables in “The Wife’s Story”?
(a) Tinder
(b) Petey
(c) Blackie
(d) Clopper

4. What does the man on the train refer to Mrs. Palmer’s father’s name as in “Anne”?
(a) Judge Peters
(b) Judge Sinclair
(c) Judge Smith
(d) Judge Anderson

5. The narrator’s husband in “The Wife’s Story” tells her when his business fails that it “would have been better I had not trusted the whole to” whom?
(a) Williams
(b) Morgans
(c) Hedwall
(d) Knopps

6. The narrator of “The Wife’s Story” says “It will be enough for me to give you the history of one day, - that of our first coming to” where?
(a) Philadelphia
(b) Boston
(c) Paris
(d) Newport

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

8. Who is coming to have tea with Mrs. Palmer’s daughter Susan in the beginning of “Anne”?
(a) Mr. Kirby
(b) Neff Sanders
(c) Jasper Tyrell
(d) Joe Hill

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

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

11. 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 Siberian
(b) An Eskimo
(c) A monkey
(d) A child

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

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

14. Who does the narrator’s husband say used to trot Jacky “on his knee on the school-house steps” when she was a baby in “The Wife’s Story”?
(a) James Matthews
(b) Peter Orwell
(c) Denver Wilson
(d) Jim Arndt

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

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

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

3. By what name does the narrator say she called her husband in their first six months of marriage in “The Wife’s Story”?

4. 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”?

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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