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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When was Rebecca Harding Davis born?
(a) 1916
(b) 1911
(c) 1831
(d) 1865

2. Who was the publisher that accepted “Life in the Iron Mills” immediately and began a long friendship with Rebecca Harding Davis?
(a) James S. Stoudt
(b) James T. Fields
(c) William B. Peters
(d) Walker H. Macy

3. The mill where Hugh Wolfe works makes iron for what in “Life in the Iron Mills”?
(a) Steam ships
(b) Skyscrapers
(c) Railroads
(d) War weaponry

4. Of the sculpture discovered by the visitors at the iron mill in “Life in the Iron Mills,” the narrator says, “There was not one line of beauty or grace in it: a nude woman’s form, muscular, grown coarse with labor, the powerful limbs instinct with some one poignant” what?
(a) Pregnancy
(b) Longing
(c) Belief
(d) Plea

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

6. The woman who stays behind at the jail after Hugh’s suicide is described as a Quaker or what, “as they call themselves” in “Life in the Iron Mills”?
(a) Pointer
(b) Follower
(c) Friend
(d) Believer

7. How many hands are employed at the iron mill where Hugh works in “Life in the Iron Mills”?
(a) 2,100
(b) 800
(c) 1,200
(d) 5,000

8. Where does Deborah go to live after serving her jail sentence in “Life in the Iron Mills”?
(a) With Janey and her husband
(b) With Old Wolfe
(c) With her mother
(d) With the Quakers

9. Mitchell claims in “Life in the Iron Mills,” “Reform is born of need, not” what?
(a) Poverty
(b) Empathy
(c) Pity
(d) Criticism

10. 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 Gregorian haunt
(b) An epic cathedral
(c) A somber Gothic pile
(d) A medieval rapture

11. Waiting for the Verdict is a novel about what?
(a) The Mexican American War
(b) The Oklahoma Dust Bowl
(c) The Spanish Inquisition
(d) Pre-Civil War racial tensions

12. How does the narrator describe the weather in the opening of “Life in the Iron Mills”?
(a) Arid
(b) Cloudy
(c) Windy
(d) Sunny

13. What is the name of the publisher’s wife whom Rebecca Harding Davis became close friends with?
(a) Annie Adams Fields
(b) Margaret Winchield
(c) Anne Elizabeth Browning
(d) Mary Richardson

14. The narrator in “Life in the Iron Mills” describes Hugh Wolfe as “no favorite in the mill; he had the taint of” what on him?
(a) School-learning
(b) Secrecy and politeness
(c) Old money
(d) Politics and corruption

15. What is the name of the judge that sentenced Hugh Wolfe in “Life in the Iron Mills”?
(a) Judge Williams
(b) Judge Day
(c) Judge Anderson
(d) Judge Carter

Short Answer Questions

1. Where was Rebecca Harding Davis born?

2. When Hugh decides to keep the money in “Life in the Iron Mills,” he realizes of his watch at the mill, “He need not go, need never go again, thank God! – shaking off the thought with” what?

3. What Latin phrase, translated as “Hungry and thirsty, his soul faints him” is used in “Life in the Iron Mills”?

4. What word used in “Life in the Iron Mills” refers to a crystalline alkaloid used as a pesticide?

5. One of the visiting men tells the owner’s son at the mill in “Life in the Iron Mills,” “If it were not that you must have heard it so often, I would tell you that your works looks like” what?

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