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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 word does the narrator use to describe Hugh Wolfe’s infancy in “Life in the Iron Mills”?
(a) Joyful
(b) Liberated
(c) Plentiful
(d) Starved

2. Mitchell says of the laborers at the iron mill in “Life in the Iron Mills,” “Let them have a clear idea of the rights of the soul, and I’ll venture next week they’ll” what?
(a) Strike for higher wages
(b) Bludgeon you for your kindness
(c) Quit for a life of poetry
(d) Strike out to the sea

3. What is the name of Rebecca Harding Davis’s eldest son who became a writer and journalist?
(a) Peter Harding Davis
(b) Richard Harding Davis
(c) James Harding Davis
(d) John Harding Davis

4. 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?
(a) Poverty and Godliness
(b) Taverns and brothels and wherever sick men live
(c) Grossness and crime, and hard, grinding labor
(d) Art and beauty based on memories of his youth

5. What word from “Life in the Iron Mills” means given or characterized by joking?
(a) Jocose
(b) Implicit
(c) Ephemeral
(d) Extrapolated

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How many men are in the group of visitors that come through the mill where Hugh works in “Life in the Iron Mills”?

3. What does Deborah begin to eat for dinner after returning from the cotton mill in the beginning of “Life in the Iron Mills”?

4. 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?

5. 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?

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