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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 night of the week is it that Deborah brings Hugh his dinner at the mill in the beginning of “Life in the Iron Mills”?
(a) Tuesday
(b) Sunday
(c) Saturday
(d) Monday

2. What does Deborah begin to eat for dinner after returning from the cotton mill in the beginning of “Life in the Iron Mills”?
(a) Pork sausage
(b) Boiled potatoes
(c) Haggis and rice
(d) Boiled cabbage

3. Where does Deborah say Hugh was born in “Life in the Iron Mills”?
(a) The flat prairie
(b) The mountain crags
(c) The Derbyshire
(d) The lane moor

4. 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?”
(a) Ce n’est pas mon affaire
(b) Laissez les bons temps roules
(c) Ce n’est pas les bons temps
(d) Laissez faire

5. The narrator in “The Wife’s Story” says that her husband and his family were all born where?
(a) Canada
(b) The East
(c) Europe
(d) The West

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did Rebecca Harding Davis largely grow up?

2. What word from “Life in the Iron Mills” means slow, dull, or sluggish?

3. The mill where Hugh Wolfe works makes iron for what in “Life in the Iron Mills”?

4. The narrator describes the mill workers in the beginning of “Life in the Iron Mills” as “laired in by day in dens of drunkenness and” what?

5. On what date were L. Clarke Davis and Rebecca Harding Davis married?

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