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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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) Petey
(b) Tinder
(c) Clopper
(d) Blackie

2. 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) Jim Arndt
(b) Denver Wilson
(c) Peter Orwell
(d) James Matthews

3. 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 famous author
(d) A sculpture artist

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

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

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

7. 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”?
(a) Hester Sander’s
(b) Deborah May’s
(c) Rosa Bonheur’s
(d) Elizabeth Taylor’s

8. What character on the train in “Anne” is described as a “fat hunched man with the greasy black whiskers and gaudy chain”?andrew
(a) Peter
(b) George Forbes
(c) Mr. Corvill
(d) Job Palmer

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

10. 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) South America
(b) Europe
(c) Africa
(d) Antarctica

11. 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) Newport
(b) Boston
(c) Philadelphia
(d) Paris

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

13. 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) September
(b) August
(c) November
(d) July

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

15. Robert is said to have what profession in “The Wife’s Story”?
(a) He is a butcher
(b) He is a preacher
(c) He is a doctor
(d) He is a lawyer

Short Answer Questions

1. The narrator describes her baby girl as what in “The Wife’s Story”?

2. What does the narrator say her husband bought after their marriage, “thinking to please me,” in “The Wife’s Story”?

3. The narrator describes “Jacky’s rough voice” as being like what in “The Wife’s Story”?

4. Where do the narrator and her husband live before they move in “The Wife’s Story”?

5. Who is coming to have tea with Mrs. Palmer’s daughter Susan in the beginning of “Anne”?

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