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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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

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

3. The narrator in “The Wife’s Story” says she grew up in what state?
(a) Idaho
(b) Massachusetts
(c) Vermont
(d) New Hampshire

4. Where do the narrator and her husband live before they move in “The Wife’s Story”?
(a) Massachusetts
(b) New York
(c) Ohio
(d) Kansas

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

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

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

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

9. 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) Europe
(c) South America
(d) Antarctica

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

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

12. 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) Pierce and Wall
(d) Kirby and John

13. 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 mayor
(c) The carriage driver
(d) The funeral director

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What character on the train in “Anne” is described as a “fat hunched man with the greasy black whiskers and gaudy chain”?andrew

2. The narrator’s husband in “The Wife’s Story” tells her when his business fails that it “would have been better I had not trusted the whole to” whom?

3. Mrs. Palmer’s son tells her that who will bring the baby over for tea in the beginning of “Anne”?

4. 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”?

5. What does the narrator of “The Wife’s Story” say was the work of her life prior to her marriage?

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