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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the man on the train refer to Mrs. Palmer’s father’s name as in “Anne”?
(a) Judge Sinclair
(b) Judge Smith
(c) Judge Peters
(d) Judge Anderson

2. What does the narrator say her husband bought after their marriage, “thinking to please me,” in “The Wife’s Story”?
(a) A ring
(b) A cape
(c) A wig
(d) A monocle

3. 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?
(a) Hedwall
(b) Knopps
(c) Morgans
(d) Williams

4. The narrator says that in the long carriage rides she took with her husband in their first six months of marriage, she used to “succeed in coaxing him imperceptibly back to talk of his life” where?
(a) Antarctica
(b) Europe
(c) Africa
(d) South America

5. The narrator describes a white bust of whom in the library of their home in “The Wife’s Story”?
(a) Athena
(b) Aphrodite
(c) Echo
(d) Psyche

6. Mrs. Palmer, when she first awakens in “Anne,” recalls that her voice left her at what age?
(a) 12
(b) 18
(c) 22
(d) 20

7. Mrs. Palmer gets on a train going where after withdrawing her bonds at the trust company in “Anne”?
(a) Philadelphia
(b) Boston
(c) New York
(d) Connecticut

8. The narrator states in “Anne” that Mrs. Palmer once went all the way to Philadelphia to hear an Italian stroller named what?
(a) Pafundi
(b) Aldore
(c) Salvini
(d) Mintone

9. What does the narrator of “The Wife’s Story” say was the work of her life prior to her marriage?
(a) A sculpture
(b) A novel
(c) An opera
(d) A painting

10. Mrs. Palmer remembers when she wakes up in “Anne” that George Forbes is now what?
(a) A sculpture artist
(b) An opera singer
(c) A famous author
(d) A famous painter

11. What does the narrator say Anne had in her hands when she fell asleep in the beginning of “Anne”?
(a) Lilacs
(b) Blueberries
(c) Yellow daisies
(d) Red roses

12. What servant does Mrs. Palmer give her satchel to and ask him to carry it to the station in “Anne”?
(a) Peter
(b) Hugh
(c) Paul
(d) James

13. Who was the supposed author of The Imitation of Christ?
(a) Saint Peter
(b) Thomas Kempis
(c) John van de Gronde
(d) Rudolf van Diepholt

14. Mrs. Palmer discovers that a man named Mr. Corvill is on the train with her in “Anne.” Corvill is noted as the name of a famous what?
(a) Politician
(b) Author
(c) Opera singer
(d) Figure-painter

15. Who does the narrator’s husband say used to trot Jacky “on his knee on the school-house steps” when she was a baby in “The Wife’s Story”?
(a) Denver Wilson
(b) Peter Orwell
(c) James Matthews
(d) Jim Arndt

Short Answer Questions

1. About how old does Mrs. Palmer appear when she looks in the mirror after awakening in “Anne”?

2. A few weeks prior to when the narrator and her husband moved in “The Wife’s Story,” she describes a cool morning in what month?

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

4. Mrs. Palmer tells her daughter in “Anne,” “I do not like to see pressed leaves and grasses about in vases. It is like making ornaments of hair cut from” what?

5. When Mrs. Palmer awakens, her servant tells her that who is at the house looking for his money in “Anne”?

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