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

2. At what station does Mrs. Palmer get off the train and go to the trust company in “Anne”?
(a) Times Square station
(b) Pennsylvania Avenue station
(c) Wall Street station
(d) Broad Street station

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

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

5. What character on the train in “Anne” is said to be the “chairman of the Woman’s National Society for the Examination of Prisons”?
(a) Mrs. Ames
(b) Miss James
(c) Mrs. Sanders
(d) Mrs. Smith

Short Answer Questions

1. Mrs. Palmer gets on a train going where after withdrawing her bonds at the trust company in “Anne”?

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

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

4. The narrator describes her baby girl as what in “The Wife’s Story”?

5. 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”?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. How is Hester’s departure from her family described in “The Wife’s Story”?

4. 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?

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

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

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

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

9. What conflict arises in “The Wife’s Story” relating to Hester’s musical ambitions?

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

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