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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through A Biographical Interpretation.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What sentence does Hugh Wolfe receive in “Life in the Iron Mills”?
(a) 5 years hard labor
(b) 19 years hard labor
(c) 2 years parole
(d) 3 years solitary confinement

2. From whom did Deborah presumably steal the money in “Life in the Iron Mills”?
(a) Mr. Mitchell
(b) Dr. May
(c) Mr. Wolfe
(d) Mr. Kirby

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

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

5. What is the name of the jailer in “Life in the Iron Mills”?
(a) Andrews
(b) Williams
(c) Peters
(d) Haley

Short Answer Questions

1. Whom does Deborah feel a pang of jealousy about as she lay on the ash heap at Hugh’s job in “Life in the Iron Mills”?

2. Where was Rebecca Harding Davis born?

3. What action is referenced in “Life in the Iron Mills” as “the peculiar action of a man dying of thirst”?

4. What nonprofit literary publisher published Life in the Iron Mills and Other Stories, including “A Biographical Interpretation”?

5. Who wrote “A Biographical Interpretation” of Rebecca Harding Davis’s “Life in the Iron Mills”?

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