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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. 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) A lofty inheritance
(b) Powerful wisdom
(c) Emotional strength
(d) Great beauty

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

3. What character on the train in “Anne” is described as a “fat hunched man with the greasy black whiskers and gaudy chain”?andrew
(a) Job Palmer
(b) Peter
(c) Mr. Corvill
(d) George Forbes

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Mrs. Palmer and her family life in “Anne”?

2. When Mrs. Palmer awakens, her servant tells her that who is at the house looking for his money in “Anne”?

3. What kind of fruit does Mrs. Palmer’s farm produce in “Anne”?

4. What is Jacky’s relationship to the narrator’s husband in “The Wife’s Story”?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What does Hester do after leaving her family in “The Wife’s Story”?

4. What is the character of Anne doing in the opening of the last story, “Anne”?

5. What information does Jacky relate to Hester regarding Dr. Manning’s first wife in “The Wife’s Story”?

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

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

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

9. What happens when Mrs. Palmer encounters George Forbes on the train in “Anne”?

10. What was the ultimate changing point in the marriage between Hester and Dr. Manning in “The Wife’s Story”?

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