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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Wife's Story.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The narrator in “Life in the Iron Mills” describes Hugh Wolfe as “A morbid, gloomy man, untaught, unled, left to feed his soul in” what?
(a) Art and beauty based on memories of his youth
(b) Grossness and crime, and hard, grinding labor
(c) Taverns and brothels and wherever sick men live
(d) Poverty and Godliness

2. The narrator states in “Life in the Iron Mills,” “These great turning-days of life cast no shadow before, slip by unconsciously. Only a trifle, a little turn of the rudder, and the ship goes” where?
(a) To heaven or hell
(b) To port or to sea
(c) To the river
(d) To the left or the right

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

4. “Life in the Iron Mills” is regarded by many academics as the beginning of what movement in American literature?
(a) Dadaism
(b) Realism
(c) Post-modernism
(d) Pulp fiction

5. Who wrote “A Biographical Interpretation” of Rebecca Harding Davis’s “Life in the Iron Mills”?
(a) Clare Clifton
(b) Deborah Hedwall
(c) Anne Bogart
(d) Tillie Olsen

Short Answer Questions

1. The narrator in the beginning of “Life in the Iron Mills” refers to the reader as “You, Egoist, or Pantheist, or” what?

2. What word from “Life in the Iron Mills” means given or characterized by joking?

3. What is the name of the publisher’s wife whom Rebecca Harding Davis became close friends with?

4. Where does the narrator say she keeps the korl statue in the end of “Life in the Iron Mills”?

5. What establishment does the narrator describe across the street when she looks out window in the beginning of “Life in the Iron Mills”?

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