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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 deaf
(b) She is an amputee
(c) She is blind
(d) She is hunchbacked

2. The narrator says in “Life in the Iron Mills,” “About this man Mitchell hung the impalpable atmosphere belonging to the” what?
(a) Lowest class
(b) Royal classes
(c) Thoroughbred gentleman
(d) Undercover policeman

3. The narrator describes her baby girl as what in “The Wife’s Story”?
(a) A snaky and sneaky rascal
(b) A weasel-faced little mortal
(c) A bounding ball of utter joy
(d) A colicky and silent child

4. 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?
(a) Old money
(b) Politics and corruption
(c) School-learning
(d) Secrecy and politeness

5. The narrator in “The Wife’s Story” says she grew up in what state?
(a) New Hampshire
(b) Massachusetts
(c) Idaho
(d) Vermont

Short Answer Questions

1. How many children did Rebecca Harding Davis have?

2. Where does Deborah hide the money she’s stolen when Hugh falls asleep after they’ve arrived home from the mill in “Life in the Iron Mills”?

3. When was Rebecca Harding Davis born?

4. What Biblical figure, the son of Isaac, does the narrator denote having been deprived of his birthright in “Life in the Iron Mills”?

5. Of the sculpture discovered by the visitors at the iron mill in “Life in the Iron Mills,” the narrator says, “There was not one line of beauty or grace in it: a nude woman’s form, muscular, grown coarse with labor, the powerful limbs instinct with some one poignant” what?

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