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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. What word does the narrator use to describe Hugh Wolfe’s infancy in “Life in the Iron Mills”?
(a) Liberated
(b) Starved
(c) Plentiful
(d) Joyful

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

3. The narrator in “The Wife’s Story” says there had been a time when she had dreamed of achieving whose stature?
(a) Margaret Fuller’s
(b) Susan B. Anthony’s
(c) Heidi C. Clark’s
(d) Eleanor Roosevelt’s

4. 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?
(a) Unmistakable joy
(b) Critical irony
(c) A shudder of grief
(d) Unspeakable loathing

5. What is the name of Rebecca Harding Davis’s eldest son who became a writer and journalist?
(a) John Harding Davis
(b) Peter Harding Davis
(c) James Harding Davis
(d) Richard Harding Davis

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. What is the name of the overseer that comes with the visiting men to the mill in “Life in the Iron Mills”?

3. The narrator describes Hugh Wolfe as a furnace-tender at one of whose rolling-mills in “Life in the Iron Mills”?

4. By what name does the narrator call the “refuse from the ore after the pig-metal is run” in “Life in the Iron Mills”?

5. How does the narrator describe the weather in the opening of “Life in the Iron Mills”?

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