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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Anne.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Rebecca Harding Davis met and became acquainted with whom while staying with Nathanial Hawthorne?
(a) Susan B. Anthony
(b) Walt Whitman
(c) Henry Thoreau
(d) Ralph Waldo Emerson

2. What kind of tobacco does the narrator describe the drunken Irishmen puffing on in the beginning of “Life in the Iron Mills”?
(a) Lynchburg tobacco
(b) Skydancer tobacco
(c) Williamsburg tobacco
(d) Lucky Strike tobacco

3. When was Margret Howth published?
(a) 1798
(b) 1914
(c) 1861
(d) 1884

4. The mill where Hugh Wolfe works makes iron for what in “Life in the Iron Mills”?
(a) Steam ships
(b) War weaponry
(c) Skyscrapers
(d) Railroads

5. 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) 30 years
(b) 4 years
(c) 20 years
(d) 10 years

Short Answer Questions

1. What word from “Life in the Iron Mills” means the state of being at rest, calm, or asleep?

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. When Hugh decides to keep the money in “Life in the Iron Mills,” he realizes of his watch at the mill, “He need not go, need never go again, thank God! – shaking off the thought with” what?

4. How many children did the narrator’s husband have from his first marriage in “The Wife’s Story”?

5. Where do the narrator and her husband live before they move in “The Wife’s Story”?

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