"The Wife's Story" by Ursula K. Le Guin Quiz and Answer Key

Reduce teacher workload, measure general reading comprehension, and promote homework accountability with this printable quiz on "The Wife's Story" by Ursula K. Le Guin. An answer key is included. Questions pertain to the following key details:

• The narrator's emotional state

• The narrator's characterization of her husband

• The relationship between the narrator and her sister

• A quality about the narrator's husband that "brings the shivers on" her

• The moon's role in the husband's transformation

• The "curse in his blood"

• The husband's tendency to leave home abruptly

• The husband's strange smell upon returning

• The children's fear of their own father

• A physical transformation

• The story's resolution