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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. What does the narrator say Anne had in her hands when she fell asleep in the beginning of “Anne”?
(a) Red roses
(b) Blueberries
(c) Yellow daisies
(d) Lilacs

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

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

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

10. Mrs. Palmer discovers that a man named Mr. Corvill is on the train with her in “Anne.” Corvill is noted as the name of a famous what?
(a) Politician
(b) Opera singer
(c) Author
(d) Figure-painter

11. The narrator describes the home she lives in with her husband by the river as being what color of farmhouse in “The Wife’s Story”?
(a) Chocolate
(b) Scarlett
(c) Yellow
(d) Lavender

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

13. By what pet name does the narrator recall her husband fondly calling her when they first married in “The Wife’s Story”?
(a) Kitty
(b) Katie
(c) Hetty
(d) Bitty

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

15. 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) Powerful wisdom
(c) Great beauty
(d) A lofty inheritance

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. What Jacky’s last name in “The Wife’s Story”?

3. What does the man on the train refer to Mrs. Palmer’s father’s name as in “Anne”?

4. 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?

5. The narrator describes “Jacky’s rough voice” as being like what in “The Wife’s Story”?

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