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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What word used in “Life in the Iron Mills” refers to a side of cured pork?
(a) Haggis
(b) Flitch
(c) Curry
(d) Bandy

2. What word does the narrator use to describe Hugh Wolfe’s infancy in “Life in the Iron Mills”?
(a) Plentiful
(b) Starved
(c) Joyful
(d) Liberated

3. On what date were L. Clarke Davis and Rebecca Harding Davis married?
(a) September 2, 1905
(b) March 5, 1863
(c) April 3, 1869
(d) March 12, 1885

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

5. At what time does Deborah return home from the cotton mill in the beginning of “Life in the Iron Mills”?
(a) 3:00
(b) 1:00
(c) 10:00
(d) 11:00

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of the publisher’s wife whom Rebecca Harding Davis became close friends with?

2. The narrator states in “Life in the Iron Mills,” “These great turning-days of life cast no shadow before, slip by unconsciously. Only a trifle, a little turn of the rudder, and the ship goes” where?

3. Dr. May says in “Life in the Iron Mills,” “That is true philosophy. Drift with the stream, because you cannot” what?

4. The narrator compares the “wild, eager face” of the sculpture in “Life in the Iron Mills” to what?

5. Who was the publisher that accepted “Life in the Iron Mills” immediately and began a long friendship with Rebecca Harding Davis?

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