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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. Where did the author of “A Biographical Interpretation” supposedly find a collection of Rebecca Harding Davis’s works?
(a) A rare bookstore
(b) Her mother’s attic
(c) A junk shop
(d) A feminist bookstore

2. What is the mill-owner’s son’s reply in French when Dr. May asks him, “Have you many such hands as this? What are you going to do with them? Keep them at puddling iron?”
(a) Laissez les bons temps roules
(b) Ce n’est pas mon affaire
(c) Laissez faire
(d) Ce n’est pas les bons temps

3. What feeder at the mill does Hugh look down on at the marketplace from his cell in “Life in the Iron Mills”?
(a) Pete Small
(b) Neff Sanders
(c) Mr. Peters
(d) Mr. Clarke

4. Of Deborah’s thoughts on Hugh in “Life in the Iron Mills,” the narrator says, “She knew, that, down under all the vileness and coarseness of his life, there was a groping passion for whatever was” what?
(a) Freedom
(b) Available to love
(c) Beautiful and pure
(d) Full of comfort

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. 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?

3. The narrator learns in “The Wife’s Story” that her husband’s first wife was addicted to what?

4. Where was “Life in the Iron Mills” first published?

5. The mill where Hugh Wolfe works makes iron for what in “Life in the Iron Mills”?

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