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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. On what date were L. Clarke Davis and Rebecca Harding Davis married?
(a) April 3, 1869
(b) March 5, 1863
(c) September 2, 1905
(d) March 12, 1885

2. How long has Deborah stood at the spools at her job in the beginning of “Life in the Iron Mills”?
(a) 8 hours
(b) 10 hours
(c) 6 hours
(d) 12 hours

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. What word from “Life in the Iron Mills” means the state of being at rest, calm, or asleep?
(a) Interim
(b) Denouement
(c) Repose
(d) Parlance

5. At what time does Deborah return home from the cotton mill in the beginning of “Life in the Iron Mills”?
(a) 3:00
(b) 1:00
(c) 11:00
(d) 10:00

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of the jailer in “Life in the Iron Mills”?

2. Where do Deborah’s coworkers tell her there a ball tonight in the beginning of “Life in the Iron Mills”?

3. Who is the town physician who comes with the visiting men to the mill in “Life in the Iron Mills”?

4. Who throws Deborah money as the visiting men at the mill depart in “Life in the Iron Mills”?

5. The narrator states in “Life in the Iron Mills,” “These great turning-days of life cast no shadow before, slip by unconsciously. Only a trifle, a little turn of the rudder, and the ship goes” where?

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