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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 was “Life in the Iron Mills” first published?
(a) The New Yorker
(b) The Atlantic Monthly
(c) The Pennsylvania Review
(d) The Reader’s Digest

2. Christ is described in “Life in the Iron Mills” as having stood “with the fishermen and harlots by the sea of” what?
(a) Judea
(b) Galilee
(c) Asia
(d) Islam

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

4. Who throws Deborah money as the visiting men at the mill depart in “Life in the Iron Mills”?
(a) Mr. Wolfe
(b) Mr. Kirby
(c) Mr. Clarke
(d) Mr. Mitchell

5. Of Deborah, the narrator says in “Life in the Iron Mills,” “Perhaps the weak, flaccid wretch had some stimulant in her pale life to keep her up—some love or hope, it might be, or urgent need. When that stimulant was gone, she would take to” what?
(a) The river
(b) Opium
(c) Whiskey
(d) Lacquer

Short Answer Questions

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

2. By what nickname is Hugh Wolfe called in the mill in “Life in the Iron Mills”?

3. When was Rebecca Harding Davis’s last essay, “The Disease of Money-Getting,” published?

4. Where does Deborah say Hugh was born in “Life in the Iron Mills”?

5. In what year did the author of “A Biographical Interpretation” republish Life in the Iron Mills and Other Stories?

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