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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 action is referenced in “Life in the Iron Mills” as “the peculiar action of a man dying of thirst”?
(a) Clutching
(b) Pursing
(c) Clinging
(d) Slinking

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

3. What school was Rebecca Harding Davis sent to attend at the age of 14?
(a) St. Jude Episcopal School for Girls
(b) Washington Female Seminary
(c) St. Mary School for Young Women
(d) Anderson Miller Women’s School

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

5. One of the visiting men tells the owner’s son at the mill in “Life in the Iron Mills,” “If it were not that you must have heard it so often, I would tell you that your works looks like” what?
(a) The Apocalypse
(b) The fires of the underworld
(c) The River Styx
(d) Dante’s Inferno

Short Answer Questions

1. What night of the week is it that Deborah brings Hugh his dinner at the mill in the beginning of “Life in the Iron Mills”?

2. The narrator describes the mill workers in the beginning of “Life in the Iron Mills” as “laired in by day in dens of drunkenness and” what?

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

4. How long has Deborah stood at the spools at her job in the beginning of “Life in the Iron Mills”?

5. How many children did Rebecca Harding Davis have?

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