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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Rebecca Harding and L. Clarke Davis became engaged how long after meeting?
(a) 3 months
(b) 1 month
(c) 6 weeks
(d) 1 week

2. What word used in “Life in the Iron Mills” refers to a crystalline alkaloid used as a pesticide?
(a) Strychnine
(b) Iodine
(c) DDT
(d) Aspartame

3. What deformity is Deborah said to be afflicted with in “Life in the Iron Mills”?
(a) She is hunchbacked
(b) She is deaf
(c) She is an amputee
(d) She is blind

4. The narrator says in “Life in the Iron Mills,” “Man cannot live by” what?
(a) Work alone
(b) Money alone
(c) Philosophy alone
(d) Love alone

5. What does Hugh use to commit suicide in jail in “Life in the Iron Mills”?
(a) A rope
(b) A police gun
(c) A bed sheet
(d) A piece of tin

Short Answer Questions

1. Janey tells Deborah that “the father” is in the stone house with whom in the beginning of “Life in the Iron Mills”?

2. From whom did Deborah presumably steal the money in “Life in the Iron Mills”?

3. What kind of tobacco does the narrator describe the drunken Irishmen puffing on in the beginning of “Life in the Iron Mills”?

4. Where was Rebecca Harding Davis born?

5. What is the mill-owner’s son’s reply in French when Dr. May asks him, “Have you many such hands as this? What are you going to do with them? Keep them at puddling iron?”

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