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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 there had been a time when she had dreamed of achieving whose stature?
(a) Heidi C. Clark’s
(b) Margaret Fuller’s
(c) Susan B. Anthony’s
(d) Eleanor Roosevelt’s

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

3. When Mrs. Palmer awakens, her servant tells her that who is at the house looking for his money in “Anne”?
(a) The coal-man
(b) The carriage driver
(c) The funeral director
(d) The mayor

4. How long after her marriage does the narrator of “The Wife’s Story” say she and her husband moved?
(a) 2 and ½ years
(b) 3 months
(c) 5 months
(d) 18 months

5. 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 morocco case
(b) An alligator suitcase
(c) A leather briefcase
(d) A wool mitten

6. The narrator learns in “The Wife’s Story” that her husband’s first wife was addicted to what?
(a) Alcohol
(b) Opium
(c) Cocaine
(d) Benzedrine

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

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

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

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

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

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

13. 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”?
(a) A lofty inheritance
(b) Powerful wisdom
(c) Great beauty
(d) Emotional strength

14. 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

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

Short Answer 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?

2. What character on the train in “Anne” is said to be the “chairman of the Woman’s National Society for the Examination of Prisons”?

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?

4. What is Mrs. Palmer’s first name in “Anne”?

5. Where does Mrs. Palmer and her family life in “Anne”?

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