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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through A Biographical Interpretation.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The church that Hugh enters on the night he decides to keep the money is described by the narrator of “Life in the Iron Mills” as what?
(a) A medieval rapture
(b) A Gregorian haunt
(c) An epic cathedral
(d) A somber Gothic pile

2. What war caused Rebecca Harding Davis to set aside her writing for a time?
(a) The American Revolution
(b) The U.S. Civil War
(c) The French and Indian War
(d) The Korean War

3. The author of “A Biographical Interpretation” states that Rebecca Harding Davis grew up along what river?
(a) The Hudson River
(b) The Ohio River
(c) The Colorado River
(d) The Columbus River

4. What nonprofit literary publisher published Life in the Iron Mills and Other Stories, including “A Biographical Interpretation”?
(a) The Feminist Press
(b) Simon and Schuster
(c) Amazon Publishing Company
(d) Penguin Books

5. Christ is described in “Life in the Iron Mills” as having stood “with the fishermen and harlots by the sea of” what?
(a) Galilee
(b) Asia
(c) Judea
(d) Islam

Short Answer Questions

1. How does the narrator describe Janey’s eyes in “Life in the Iron Mills”?

2. When was “Life in the Iron Mills” first published in a periodical?

3. When was Waiting for the Verdict published?

4. What feeder at the mill does Hugh look down on at the marketplace from his cell in “Life in the Iron Mills”?

5. Mitchell says of the laborers at the iron mill in “Life in the Iron Mills,” “Let them have a clear idea of the rights of the soul, and I’ll venture next week they’ll” what?

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