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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The mill where Hugh works in “Life in the Iron Mills” is described as being by the river and how far below the city-limits?
(a) 1 mile
(b) 10 miles
(c) ½ mile
(d) 2 miles

2. Where does the narrator say she keeps the korl statue in the end of “Life in the Iron Mills”?
(a) In a bank vault
(b) In a museum
(c) Behind a curtain
(d) On the front porch

3. 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) Washington Female Seminary
(d) Anderson Miller Women’s School

4. What broken figure does the narrator describe as “pointing upward from the mantle shelf” in the beginning of “Life in the Iron Mills”?
(a) A lion
(b) A tiger
(c) An angel
(d) A goddess

5. According to the author of “A Biographical Interpretation,” Rebecca Harding Davis wrote an article speaking out against what movement?
(a) The American Realism movement
(b) The women’s rights movement
(c) The prohibition movement
(d) The abolitionist movement

Short Answer Questions

1. What deformity is Deborah said to be afflicted with in “Life in the Iron Mills”?

2. What is Hugh’s charge for the theft of the money in “Life in the Iron Mills”?

3. What word does the narrator use to describe Hugh Wolfe’s infancy in “Life in the Iron Mills”?

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

5. The narrator in “Life in the Iron Mills” describes “man’s law” as that “which seizes on one” what?

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