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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What word from “Life in the Iron Mills” means slow, dull, or sluggish?
(a) Tainted
(b) Torpid
(c) Trepid
(d) Torrid

3. How many children did Rebecca Harding Davis have?
(a) 7
(b) 2
(c) 1
(d) 3

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

5. Mitchell claims in “Life in the Iron Mills,” “Reform is born of need, not” what?
(a) Criticism
(b) Pity
(c) Empathy
(d) Poverty

Short Answer Questions

1. What Latin phrase, translated as “Hungry and thirsty, his soul faints him” is used in “Life in the Iron Mills”?

2. “Life in the Iron Mills” is regarded by many academics as the beginning of what movement in American literature?

3. Hugh’s legs are describes as being ironed because he made how many attempts at escape from jail in “Life in the Iron Mills”?

4. How is Deborah related to Hugh Wolfe in “Life in the Iron Mills”?

5. The narrator in the beginning of “Life in the Iron Mills” refers to the reader as “You, Egoist, or Pantheist, or” what?

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