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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When Hugh decides to keep the money in “Life in the Iron Mills,” he realizes of his watch at the mill, “He need not go, need never go again, thank God! – shaking off the thought with” what?
(a) A shudder of grief
(b) Critical irony
(c) Unmistakable joy
(d) Unspeakable loathing

2. What school was Rebecca Harding Davis sent to attend at the age of 14?
(a) Washington Female Seminary
(b) Anderson Miller Women’s School
(c) St. Jude Episcopal School for Girls
(d) St. Mary School for Young Women

3. Where was Rebecca Harding Davis born?
(a) Wheeling, West Virginia
(b) New York, New York
(c) Washington, Pennsylvania
(d) New Hope, Pennsylvania

4. The narrator tells the reader in the beginning of “Life in the Iron Mills,” I will tell you plainly that I have a great hope; and I bring it to you to be” what?
(a) Embraced
(b) Digested
(c) Remembered
(d) Tested

5. How does the narrator describe the weather in the opening of “Life in the Iron Mills”?
(a) Sunny
(b) Windy
(c) Arid
(d) Cloudy

Short Answer Questions

1. The church that Hugh enters on the night he decides to keep the money is described by the narrator of “Life in the Iron Mills” as what?

2. What is the name of Rebecca Harding Davis’s eldest son who became a writer and journalist?

3. What word from “Life in the Iron Mills” means the state of being at rest, calm, or asleep?

4. Whom does Deborah feel a pang of jealousy about as she lay on the ash heap at Hugh’s job in “Life in the Iron Mills”?

5. Waiting for the Verdict is a novel about what?

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