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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The woman who stays behind at the jail after Hugh’s suicide is described as a Quaker or what, “as they call themselves” in “Life in the Iron Mills”?
(a) Friend
(b) Believer
(c) Pointer
(d) Follower

2. What Biblical figure, the son of Isaac, does the narrator denote having been deprived of his birthright in “Life in the Iron Mills”?
(a) Cain
(b) Abel
(c) Esau
(d) Peter

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

4. Mitchell says of the laborers at the iron mill in “Life in the Iron Mills,” “Let them have a clear idea of the rights of the soul, and I’ll venture next week they’ll” what?
(a) Bludgeon you for your kindness
(b) Strike out to the sea
(c) Strike for higher wages
(d) Quit for a life of poetry

5. What is the name of the jailer in “Life in the Iron Mills”?
(a) Peters
(b) Haley
(c) Andrews
(d) Williams

Short Answer Questions

1. The character called Mitchell in “Life in the Iron Mills” is said to be an amateur what?

2. When was Rebecca Harding Davis born?

3. What nonprofit literary publisher published Life in the Iron Mills and Other Stories, including “A Biographical Interpretation”?

4. What Latin phrase, translated as “Hungry and thirsty, his soul faints him” is used in “Life in the Iron Mills”?

5. 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?

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