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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 is the name of the publisher’s wife whom Rebecca Harding Davis became close friends with?
(a) Mary Richardson
(b) Anne Elizabeth Browning
(c) Margaret Winchield
(d) Annie Adams Fields

2. The narrator in “Life in the Iron Mills” says that it is nearly how long since the Wolfes lived in the boarding house in the beginning of the story?
(a) 20 years
(b) 10 years
(c) 4 years
(d) 30 years

3. What establishment does the narrator describe across the street when she looks out window in the beginning of “Life in the Iron Mills”?
(a) A grocer’s shop
(b) A funeral parlor
(c) A tavern
(d) A barbershop

4. One of the men that visits the mill along with other men in “Life in the Iron Mills” is the son of which of the mill-owners?
(a) Mr. Kirby
(b) Mr. Peters
(c) Mr. Jones
(d) Mr. May

5. When was “Life in the Iron Mills” first published in a periodical?
(a) April, 1861
(b) July, 1912
(c) June, 1843
(d) September, 1900

Short Answer Questions

1. Of Hugh Wolfe, the narrator says in “Life in the Iron Mills,” “His soul within him was smothering to death; he wanted so much, thought so much, and knew” what?

2. The narrator in “Life in the Iron Mills” describes “man’s law” as that “which seizes on one” what?

3. What is the name of the overseer that comes with the visiting men to the mill in “Life in the Iron Mills”?

4. The narrator in the beginning of “Life in the Iron Mills” refers to the reader as “You, Egoist, or Pantheist, or” what?

5. Dr. May says in “Life in the Iron Mills,” “That is true philosophy. Drift with the stream, because you cannot” what?

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