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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. The narrator in “The Wife’s Story” says that her husband and his family were all born where?
(a) Canada
(b) Europe
(c) The East
(d) The West

5. 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) Dead animals
(c) A dead body
(d) Ugly tinsel

6. 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?
(a) Hedwall
(b) Morgans
(c) Knopps
(d) Williams

7. The narrator states in “Anne” that Mrs. Palmer once went all the way to Philadelphia to hear an Italian stroller named what?
(a) Pafundi
(b) Aldore
(c) Salvini
(d) Mintone

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

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

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

11. 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 coal-man
(c) The carriage driver
(d) The funeral director

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is the name of Mrs. Palmer’s servant who tells her a man is there for his money when Mrs. Palmer awakens in “Anne”?

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

4. 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”?

5. 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?

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