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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. Of Hugh Wolfe, the narrator says in “Life in the Iron Mills,” “Yet he was kind to her: it was his nature to be kind, even to the very” what?
(a) Dog that bit him
(b) Rats that swarmed the cellar
(c) Police that hold him down
(d) Beggars in the streets

2. How many children did the narrator’s husband have from his first marriage in “The Wife’s Story”?
(a) 4
(b) 5
(c) 2
(d) 3

3. What school was Rebecca Harding Davis sent to attend at the age of 14?
(a) Washington Female Seminary
(b) St. Mary School for Young Women
(c) St. Jude Episcopal School for Girls
(d) Anderson Miller Women’s School

4. One of the visiting men tells the owner’s son at the mill in “Life in the Iron Mills,” “If it were not that you must have heard it so often, I would tell you that your works looks like” what?
(a) Dante’s Inferno
(b) The River Styx
(c) The Apocalypse
(d) The fires of the underworld

5. Who throws Deborah money as the visiting men at the mill depart in “Life in the Iron Mills”?
(a) Mr. Clarke
(b) Mr. Wolfe
(c) Mr. Mitchell
(d) Mr. Kirby

Short Answer Questions

1. The narrator in “Life in the Iron Mills” describes Hugh Wolfe as “no favorite in the mill; he had the taint of” what on him?

2. What nonprofit literary publisher published Life in the Iron Mills and Other Stories, including “A Biographical Interpretation”?

3. How does the narrator describe Janey’s eyes in “Life in the Iron Mills”?

4. The narrator describes her baby girl as what in “The Wife’s Story”?

5. What deformity is Deborah said to be afflicted with in “Life in the Iron Mills”?

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