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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What kind of fruit does Mrs. Palmer’s farm produce in “Anne”?
(a) Peaches
(b) Pears
(c) Cherries
(d) Apples

2. 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) Susan B. Anthony’s
(c) Margaret Fuller’s
(d) Eleanor Roosevelt’s

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

4. When Mrs. Palmer awakens, her servant tells her that who is at the house looking for his money in “Anne”?
(a) The coal-man
(b) The mayor
(c) The carriage driver
(d) The funeral director

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was the supposed author of The Imitation of Christ?

2. What does the narrator of “Anne” say that Anne had “ever since she was a baby, and felt it as she did her blood from her feet to her head, and triumphed and was happy in it”?

3. Who is the woman walking with George across the lawn as Anne drowses in the beginning of “Anne”?

4. The narrator describes “Jacky’s rough voice” as being like what in “The Wife’s Story”?

5. 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”?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does the plot of “Anne” relate to the life of author Rebecca Harding Davis?

2. What is Mrs. Palmer’s relationship to Anne in “Anne”?

3. What conflict arises in “The Wife’s Story” relating to Hester’s musical ambitions?

4. What happens when Mrs. Palmer encounters George Forbes on the train in “Anne”?

5. What was the ultimate changing point in the marriage between Hester and Dr. Manning in “The Wife’s Story”?

6. How would you describe the character of Hester in “The Wife’s Story”? What information is established about Hester in the opening of the story?

7. What happens to Mrs. Palmer in the denouement of “Anne”?

8. What does Hester discover about her husband after she’s left him in “The Wife’s Story”?

9. What “big decision” does Mrs. Palmer make in “Anne”? Why?

10. What does Hester do after leaving her family in “The Wife’s Story”?

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