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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 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?
(a) Europe
(b) Antarctica
(c) Africa
(d) South America

2. Mrs. Palmer remembers when she wakes up in “Anne” that George Forbes is now what?
(a) An opera singer
(b) A famous painter
(c) A famous author
(d) A sculpture artist

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

4. What does the narrator of “The Wife’s Story” say was the work of her life prior to her marriage?
(a) A novel
(b) An opera
(c) A sculpture
(d) A painting

5. Who does the narrator’s husband say used to trot Jacky “on his knee on the school-house steps” when she was a baby in “The Wife’s Story”?
(a) James Matthews
(b) Peter Orwell
(c) Jim Arndt
(d) Denver Wilson

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Robert is said to have what profession in “The Wife’s Story”?

3. What is the name of Mrs. Palmer’s servant who tells her a man is there for his money when Mrs. Palmer awakens in “Anne”?

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

5. How many children did the narrator’s husband have from his first marriage in “The Wife’s Story”?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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