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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Anne.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When was Waiting for the Verdict published?
(a) 1811
(b) 1898
(c) 1839
(d) 1867

2. Dr. May says in “Life in the Iron Mills,” “That is true philosophy. Drift with the stream, because you cannot” what?
(a) Face the harshness of the deep
(b) Answer for the current
(c) Dive deep enough to find bottom
(d) Swim against the current

3. What word does the narrator use to describe Hugh Wolfe’s infancy in “Life in the Iron Mills”?
(a) Starved
(b) Joyful
(c) Plentiful
(d) Liberated

4. What is Mrs. Palmer’s first name in “Anne”?
(a) Candace
(b) Adelaide
(c) Miranda
(d) Nancy

5. Whom does Deborah feel a pang of jealousy about as she lay on the ash heap at Hugh’s job in “Life in the Iron Mills”?
(a) Mr. Mitchell
(b) Janey
(c) Old Wolfe
(d) Sarah

Short Answer Questions

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

2. The narrator’s husband in “The Wife’s Story” tells her when his business fails that it “would have been better I had not trusted the whole to” whom?

3. Janey tells Deborah that “the father” is in the stone house with whom in the beginning of “Life in the Iron Mills”?

4. The narrator says in “Life in the Iron Mills,” “Man cannot live by” what?

5. What feeder at the mill does Hugh look down on at the marketplace from his cell in “Life in the Iron Mills”?

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