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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 is Mrs. Palmer’s first name in “Anne”?
(a) Miranda
(b) Candace
(c) Nancy
(d) Adelaide

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

3. The narrator of “The Wife’s Story” recalls a time in Paris when she had gone to whose studio outside of the city to see her “Horse-Fair”?
(a) Hester Sander’s
(b) Elizabeth Taylor’s
(c) Rosa Bonheur’s
(d) Deborah May’s

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

5. When Susan tries putting a shawl in Mrs. Palmer in “Anne,” Mrs. Palmer replies, “I am not in my dotage, child, that I cannot walk out without being wrapped up like” what?
(a) An Eskimo
(b) A child
(c) A Siberian
(d) A monkey

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who was the supposed author of The Imitation of Christ?

3. The narrator learns in “The Wife’s Story” that her husband’s first wife was addicted to what?

4. 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?

5. Mrs. Palmer remembers when she wakes up in “Anne” that George Forbes is now what?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. 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?

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

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

6. How would you describe the ending of “The Wife’s Story”? What happens to Hester?

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

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

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

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

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