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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where does the narrator say she keeps the korl statue in the end of “Life in the Iron Mills”?
(a) In a bank vault
(b) In a museum
(c) Behind a curtain
(d) On the front porch

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

3. Who was the publisher that accepted “Life in the Iron Mills” immediately and began a long friendship with Rebecca Harding Davis?
(a) James S. Stoudt
(b) Walker H. Macy
(c) William B. Peters
(d) James T. Fields

4. The mill where Hugh Wolfe works makes iron for what in “Life in the Iron Mills”?
(a) War weaponry
(b) Steam ships
(c) Skyscrapers
(d) Railroads

5. Rebecca Harding Davis was the eldest of how many children in her family?
(a) 5
(b) 2
(c) 3
(d) 4

Short Answer Questions

1. How does the narrator describe Hugh Wolfe’s face in “Life in the Iron Mills”?

2. 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?

3. The narrator says in “Life in the Iron Mills,” “About this man Mitchell hung the impalpable atmosphere belonging to the” what?

4. 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?”

5. Where did the author of “A Biographical Interpretation” supposedly find a collection of Rebecca Harding Davis’s works?

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