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

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

3. 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) Emotional strength
(b) A lofty inheritance
(c) Great beauty
(d) Powerful wisdom

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

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

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

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

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

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

10. The narrator in “The Wife’s Story” says there had been a time when she had dreamed of achieving whose stature?
(a) Eleanor Roosevelt’s
(b) Margaret Fuller’s
(c) Susan B. Anthony’s
(d) Heidi C. Clark’s

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

12. By what name does the narrator say she called her husband in their first six months of marriage in “The Wife’s Story”?
(a) Daniel
(b) James
(c) Andrew
(d) Michael

13. 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) James
(d) Peter

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. The narrator states in “Anne” that Mrs. Palmer once went all the way to Philadelphia to hear an Italian stroller named what?

2. The narrator in “The Wife’s Story” says she grew up in what state?

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”?

4. 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?

5. What kind of fruit does Mrs. Palmer’s farm produce in “Anne”?

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