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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 night of the week is it that Deborah brings Hugh his dinner at the mill in the beginning of “Life in the Iron Mills”?
(a) Tuesday
(b) Monday
(c) Saturday
(d) Sunday

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

3. Who wrote “A Biographical Interpretation” of Rebecca Harding Davis’s “Life in the Iron Mills”?
(a) Tillie Olsen
(b) Anne Bogart
(c) Deborah Hedwall
(d) Clare Clifton

4. The narrator states in the beginning of “Life in the Iron Mills,” “The idiosyncrasy of this town is” what?
(a) Sunshine
(b) Cleanliness
(c) Smoke
(d) Paint

5. What does Mitchell refer to as “the cure for all the world’s diseases” in “Life in the Iron Mills”?
(a) Justice
(b) Beauty
(c) Honor
(d) Money

Short Answer Questions

1. The character called Mitchell in “Life in the Iron Mills” is said to be an amateur what?

2. What does Hugh use to commit suicide in jail in “Life in the Iron Mills”?

3. Of Deborah’s thoughts on Hugh in “Life in the Iron Mills,” the narrator says, “She knew, that, down under all the vileness and coarseness of his life, there was a groping passion for whatever was” what?

4. The mill where Hugh Wolfe works makes iron for what in “Life in the Iron Mills”?

5. When was Rebecca Harding Davis born?

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