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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When was Rebecca Harding Davis born?
(a) 1916
(b) 1831
(c) 1865
(d) 1911

2. How does the narrator describe the weather in the opening of “Life in the Iron Mills”?
(a) Arid
(b) Windy
(c) Sunny
(d) Cloudy

3. 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) Sunday
(c) Saturday
(d) Monday

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

5. One of the visiting men tells the owner’s son at the mill in “Life in the Iron Mills,” “If it were not that you must have heard it so often, I would tell you that your works looks like” what?
(a) Dante’s Inferno
(b) The Apocalypse
(c) The fires of the underworld
(d) The River Styx

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?”

2. The narrator tells the reader in the beginning of “Life in the Iron Mills,” I will tell you plainly that I have a great hope; and I bring it to you to be” what?

3. 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?

4. Rebecca Harding and L. Clarke Davis became engaged how long after meeting?

5. Of the sculpture discovered by the visitors at the iron mill in “Life in the Iron Mills,” the narrator says, “There was not one line of beauty or grace in it: a nude woman’s form, muscular, grown coarse with labor, the powerful limbs instinct with some one poignant” what?

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