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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. When Mrs. Palmer returns from walking in the woods, Susan tells her she must take “four grains of quinine and” what when going to bed in “Anne”?
(a) A dram of whisky
(b) A hot lemonade
(c) A spoon of cough syrup
(d) A cookie

7. What was Mrs. Palmer’s husband’s name in “Anne”?
(a) Job Palmer
(b) Joe Palmer
(c) James Palmer
(d) Neff Palmer

8. 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 novel
(c) A sculpture
(d) A painting

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

10. 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

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

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the narrator say Anne had in her hands when she fell asleep in the beginning of “Anne”?

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

3. How many children did the narrator’s husband have from his first marriage in “The Wife’s Story”?

4. What is the narrator’s name in “The Wife’s Story”?

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

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