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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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) Newport
(d) Paris

2. What servant does Mrs. Palmer give her satchel to and ask him to carry it to the station in “Anne”?
(a) Paul
(b) James
(c) Peter
(d) Hugh

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

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

5. 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 hot lemonade
(b) A cookie
(c) A dram of whisky
(d) A spoon of cough syrup

Short Answer Questions

1. By what pet name does the narrator recall her husband fondly calling her when they first married in “The Wife’s Story”?

2. The narrator describes a white bust of whom in the library of their home in “The Wife’s Story”?

3. 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?

4. 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?

5. Who is the woman walking with George across the lawn as Anne drowses in the beginning of “Anne”?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happens to Mrs. Palmer in the denouement of “Anne”?

2. What consumes Mrs. Palmer’s thoughts when her character is introduced in “Anne”?

3. What is Mrs. Palmer’s relationship to Anne in “Anne”?

4. Who does Mrs. Palmer first encounter on the train in “Anne”? What is Mrs. Palmer’s reaction?

5. How would you describe the character of Hester in “The Wife’s Story”? What information is established about Hester in the opening of the story?

6. How does the plot of “Anne” relate to the life of author Rebecca Harding Davis?

7. When and why did Hester’s marriage begin to change in “The Wife’s Story”?

8. Why is Hester’s family moving in “The Wife’s Story”? How does Hester feel about the move?

9. Where does Mrs. Palmer travel in “Anne”? How does she fund her travels?

10. What does Hester discover about her husband after she’s left him in “The Wife’s Story”?

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