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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 man on the train refer to Mrs. Palmer’s father’s name as in “Anne”?
(a) Judge Anderson
(b) Judge Sinclair
(c) Judge Smith
(d) Judge Peters

2. A few weeks prior to when the narrator and her husband moved in “The Wife’s Story,” she describes a cool morning in what month?
(a) September
(b) August
(c) July
(d) November

3. Mrs. Palmer, when she first awakens in “Anne,” recalls that her voice left her at what age?
(a) 22
(b) 20
(c) 12
(d) 18

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

5. Who is coming to have tea with Mrs. Palmer’s daughter Susan in the beginning of “Anne”?
(a) Jasper Tyrell
(b) Mr. Kirby
(c) Joe Hill
(d) Neff Sanders

Short Answer Questions

1. The narrator states in “Anne” that Mrs. Palmer once went all the way to Philadelphia to hear an Italian stroller named what?

2. How long after her marriage does the narrator of “The Wife’s Story” say she and her husband moved?

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”?

4. What is Mrs. Palmer’s first name in “Anne”?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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 does the narrator note about the character of Mrs. Palmer in the ending of “Anne”?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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