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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. On what date were L. Clarke Davis and Rebecca Harding Davis married?
(a) March 12, 1885
(b) September 2, 1905
(c) March 5, 1863
(d) April 3, 1869

2. Rebecca Harding and L. Clarke Davis met where?
(a) Harrisburg, Pennsylvania
(b) Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
(c) New York, New York
(d) Boston, Massachusetts

3. When was Rebecca Harding Davis’s last essay, “The Disease of Money-Getting,” published?
(a) 1911
(b) 1884
(c) 1902
(d) 1798

4. The narrator in the beginning of “Life in the Iron Mills” refers to the reader as “You, Egoist, or Pantheist, or” what?
(a) Polarized
(b) Arminian
(c) Leonine
(d) Argentine

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Mitchell refer to as “the cure for all the world’s diseases” in “Life in the Iron Mills”?

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

4. Who throws Deborah money as the visiting men at the mill depart in “Life in the Iron Mills”?

5. “Life in the Iron Mills” is regarded by many academics as the beginning of what movement in American literature?

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