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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. On what date did Rebecca Harding Davis die?
(a) September 29, 1910
(b) October 3, 1896
(c) September 16, 1889
(d) July 7, 1901

2. When was Margret Howth published?
(a) 1861
(b) 1884
(c) 1798
(d) 1914

3. 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?
(a) Slaves
(b) Put out of their misery
(c) Robots
(d) Machines

4. What word from “Life in the Iron Mills” means slow, dull, or sluggish?
(a) Torrid
(b) Torpid
(c) Trepid
(d) Tainted

5. Whom does Deborah feel a pang of jealousy about as she lay on the ash heap at Hugh’s job in “Life in the Iron Mills”?
(a) Janey
(b) Sarah
(c) Old Wolfe
(d) Mr. Mitchell

Short Answer Questions

1. Rebecca Harding Davis was the eldest of how many children in her family?

2. Where does Deborah say Hugh was born in “Life in the Iron Mills”?

3. When was Rebecca Harding Davis’s last essay, “The Disease of Money-Getting,” published?

4. How many children did Rebecca Harding Davis have?

5. Doctor May reads Hugh’s sentence to his wife from the newspaper how long after the night when they discussed the sculpture in “Life in the Iron Mills”?

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