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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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) Red roses
(d) Blueberries

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

3. 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?
(a) Africa
(b) Antarctica
(c) South America
(d) Europe

4. Who was the supposed author of The Imitation of Christ?
(a) Rudolf van Diepholt
(b) Thomas Kempis
(c) John van de Gronde
(d) Saint Peter

5. 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?
(a) July
(b) November
(c) August
(d) September

6. 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) Yellow
(c) Chocolate
(d) Scarlett

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

8. What is the name of the narrator’s husband’s youngest son in “The Wife’s Story”?
(a) James
(b) Teddy
(c) Peter
(d) Hugh

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

10. The narrator describes her baby girl as what in “The Wife’s Story”?
(a) A bounding ball of utter joy
(b) A weasel-faced little mortal
(c) A colicky and silent child
(d) A snaky and sneaky rascal

11. Mrs. Palmer, when she first awakens in “Anne,” recalls that her voice left her at what age?
(a) 12
(b) 18
(c) 22
(d) 20

12. 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”?
(a) Jane
(b) Jenny
(c) Susan
(d) Sarah

13. 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) Peters and Smith
(b) Anderson and Williams
(c) Kirby and John
(d) Pierce and Wall

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

15. 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) Author
(b) Figure-painter
(c) Politician
(d) Opera singer

Short Answer Questions

1. The narrator describes a white bust of whom in the library of their home in “The Wife’s Story”?

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

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. Robert is said to have what profession in “The Wife’s Story”?

5. 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”?

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