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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Wife's Story.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What deformity is Deborah said to be afflicted with in “Life in the Iron Mills”?
(a) She is hunchbacked
(b) She is blind
(c) She is an amputee
(d) She is deaf

2. According to the author of “A Biographical Interpretation,” Rebecca Harding Davis wrote an article speaking out against what movement?
(a) The prohibition movement
(b) The women’s rights movement
(c) The American Realism movement
(d) The abolitionist movement

3. Where do the narrator and her husband live before they move in “The Wife’s Story”?
(a) New York
(b) Ohio
(c) Massachusetts
(d) Kansas

4. The narrator states in the beginning of “Life in the Iron Mills,” “The idiosyncrasy of this town is” what?
(a) Sunshine
(b) Paint
(c) Cleanliness
(d) Smoke

5. Of Deborah’s thoughts on Hugh in “Life in the Iron Mills,” the narrator says, “She knew, that, down under all the vileness and coarseness of his life, there was a groping passion for whatever was” what?
(a) Beautiful and pure
(b) Available to love
(c) Full of comfort
(d) Freedom

Short Answer Questions

1. Where do Deborah’s coworkers tell her there a ball tonight in the beginning of “Life in the Iron Mills”?

2. The narrator in “Life in the Iron Mills” describes Hugh Wolfe’s father as being an immigrant from where?

3. What is the mill-owner’s son’s reply in French when Dr. May asks him, “Have you many such hands as this? What are you going to do with them? Keep them at puddling iron?”

4. By what name does the narrator say she called her husband in their first six months of marriage in “The Wife’s Story”?

5. Of the now shutting-down iron mill, Mitchell says in “Life in the Iron Mills,” “One could fancy these red smoldering lights to be the half-shut eyes of wild beasts, and the spectral figures their” what?

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