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) 10 miles
(b) ½ mile
(c) 1 mile
(d) 2 miles

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

3. Deborah tells Hugh when she brings him food at work that she fears the ale is a bit what, in “Life in the Iron Mills”?
(a) Sweet
(b) Sour
(c) Bitter
(d) Moldy

4. The narrator in “Life in the Iron Mills” describes Hugh Wolfe as “no favorite in the mill; he had the taint of” what on him?
(a) Old money
(b) Politics and corruption
(c) Secrecy and politeness
(d) School-learning

5. Rebecca Harding Davis supported her young family by working as an editor for what publication?
(a) The Boston Globe
(b) The Philadelphia Inquirer
(c) The New York Times
(d) The Washington Journal

Short Answer Questions

1. Of Deborah, the narrator says in “Life in the Iron Mills,” “Perhaps the weak, flaccid wretch had some stimulant in her pale life to keep her up—some love or hope, it might be, or urgent need. When that stimulant was gone, she would take to” what?

2. What sentence does Hugh Wolfe receive in “Life in the Iron Mills”?

3. When was “Life in the Iron Mills” first published in a periodical?

4. The narrator describes the mill workers in the beginning of “Life in the Iron Mills” as “laired in by day in dens of drunkenness and” what?

5. Of whom does the narrator say Hugh had found “a Man all- knowing, all-seeing, crowned by Nature, reigning” in “Life in the Iron Mills”?

(see the answer key)

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