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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, when she first awakens in “Anne,” recalls that her voice left her at what age?
(a) 18
(b) 12
(c) 20
(d) 22
2. 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) Figure-painter
(c) Author
(d) Opera singer
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) George Forbes
(c) Mr. Corvill
(d) Peter
4. 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) Great beauty
(b) Powerful wisdom
(c) A lofty inheritance
(d) Emotional strength
5. The narrator describes a white bust of whom in the library of their home in “The Wife’s Story”?
(a) Psyche
(b) Athena
(c) Aphrodite
(d) Echo
Short Answer Questions
1. What does the narrator say her husband bought after their marriage, “thinking to please me,” in “The Wife’s Story”?
2. At what station does Mrs. Palmer get off the train and go to the trust company in “Anne”?
3. How long after her marriage does the narrator of “The Wife’s Story” say she and her husband moved?
4. Who is the woman walking with George across the lawn as Anne drowses in the beginning of “Anne”?
5. Who is coming to have tea with Mrs. Palmer’s daughter Susan in the beginning of “Anne”?
Short Essay Questions
1. How would you describe the ending of “The Wife’s Story”? What happens to Hester?
2. What is the character of Anne doing in the opening of the last story, “Anne”?
3. What information does Jacky relate to Hester regarding Dr. Manning’s first wife in “The Wife’s Story”?
4. Why is Hester’s family moving in “The Wife’s Story”? How does Hester feel about the move?
5. What “big decision” does Mrs. Palmer make in “Anne”? Why?
6. How is Hester’s departure from her family described in “The Wife’s Story”?
7. What conflict arises in “The Wife’s Story” relating to Hester’s musical ambitions?
8. What does the narrator note about the character of Mrs. Palmer in the ending of “Anne”?
9. What is Mrs. Palmer’s relationship to Anne in “Anne”?
10. What does Hester do after leaving her family in “The Wife’s Story”?
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