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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 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

2. The narrator in the beginning of “Life in the Iron Mills” refers to the reader as “You, Egoist, or Pantheist, or” what?
(a) Argentine
(b) Polarized
(c) Arminian
(d) Leonine

3. Rebecca Harding and L. Clarke Davis met where?
(a) Boston, Massachusetts
(b) Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
(c) New York, New York
(d) Harrisburg, Pennsylvania

4. What word from “Life in the Iron Mills” means given or characterized by joking?
(a) Ephemeral
(b) Implicit
(c) Jocose
(d) Extrapolated

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What action is referenced in “Life in the Iron Mills” as “the peculiar action of a man dying of thirst”?

3. Mitchell claims in “Life in the Iron Mills,” “Reform is born of need, not” what?

4. What establishment does the narrator describe across the street when she looks out window in the beginning of “Life in the Iron Mills”?

5. What kind of tobacco does the narrator describe the drunken Irishmen puffing on in the beginning of “Life in the Iron Mills”?

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