1. How many votes does the mill-owner’s son say his father brought to the polls for his candidate last November in “Life in the Iron Mills”?
(a) 300
(b) 500
(c) 250
(d) 700

2. What is the name of the publisher’s wife whom Rebecca Harding Davis became close friends with?
(a) Anne Elizabeth Browning
(b) Mary Richardson
(c) Annie Adams Fields
(d) Margaret Winchield

3. What kind of tobacco does the narrator describe the drunken Irishmen puffing on in the beginning of “Life in the Iron Mills”?
(a) Williamsburg tobacco
(b) Skydancer tobacco
(c) Lucky Strike tobacco
(d) Lynchburg tobacco

4. How is Deborah related to Hugh Wolfe in “Life in the Iron Mills”?
(a) She’s his daughter
(b) She’s his aunt
(c) She’s his cousin
(d) She’s his sister

5. When was Rebecca Harding Davis’s last essay, “The Disease of Money-Getting,” published?
(a) 1902
(b) 1911
(c) 1798
(d) 1884

Short Answer Questions

1. Doctor May reads Hugh’s sentence to his wife from the newspaper how long after the night when they discussed the sculpture in “Life in the Iron Mills”?

2. Where was “Life in the Iron Mills” first published?

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

4. Where did Rebecca Harding Davis largely grow up?

5. What is the name of the lawyer that the judge appoints to Hugh Wolfe in “Life in the Iron Mills”?

(see the answer key)

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