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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The narrator learns in “The Wife’s Story” that her husband’s first wife was addicted to what?
(a) Alcohol
(b) Benzedrine
(c) Cocaine
(d) Opium

2. What character on the train in “Anne” is said to be the “chairman of the Woman’s National Society for the Examination of Prisons”?
(a) Mrs. Sanders
(b) Mrs. Ames
(c) Mrs. Smith
(d) Miss James

3. The narrator in “The Wife’s Story” says there had been a time when she had dreamed of achieving whose stature?
(a) Heidi C. Clark’s
(b) Eleanor Roosevelt’s
(c) Margaret Fuller’s
(d) Susan B. Anthony’s

4. Robert is said to have what profession in “The Wife’s Story”?
(a) He is a lawyer
(b) He is a doctor
(c) He is a butcher
(d) He is a preacher

5. By what name does the narrator say she called her husband in their first six months of marriage in “The Wife’s Story”?
(a) Michael
(b) Daniel
(c) James
(d) Andrew

Short Answer Questions

1. The mill-owner’s son tells his companions in “Life in the Iron Mills,” “If I had the making of men, these men who do the lowest part of the world’s work should be” what?

2. The woman who stays behind at the jail after Hugh’s suicide is described as a Quaker or what, “as they call themselves” in “Life in the Iron Mills”?

3. How many hands are employed at the iron mill where Hugh works in “Life in the Iron Mills”?

4. The narrator describes a white bust of whom in the library of their home in “The Wife’s Story”?

5. How long after her marriage does the narrator of “The Wife’s Story” say she and her husband moved?

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