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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What is the name of the publisher’s wife whom Rebecca Harding Davis became close friends with?
(a) Margaret Winchield
(b) Anne Elizabeth Browning
(c) Mary Richardson
(d) Annie Adams Fields

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

5. 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?
(a) Put out of their misery
(b) Robots
(c) Slaves
(d) Machines

Short Answer Questions

1. Mrs. Palmer remembers when she wakes up in “Anne” that George Forbes is now what?

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

3. By what pet name does the narrator recall her husband fondly calling her when they first married in “The Wife’s Story”?

4. Waiting for the Verdict is a novel about what?

5. Of Hugh Wolfe, the narrator says in “Life in the Iron Mills,” “Yet he was kind to her: it was his nature to be kind, even to the very” what?

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