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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) Pointer
(b) Follower
(c) Believer
(d) Friend

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) Peter
(b) Esau
(c) Abel
(d) Cain

3. How many children did Rebecca Harding Davis have?
(a) 1
(b) 2
(c) 7
(d) 3

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 Hugh Wolfe’s face in “Life in the Iron Mills”?
(a) A round and glowing face
(b) A sly and jovial young man’s face
(c) A meek, woman’s face
(d) A haggard face with slyness like a snake

Short Answer Questions

1. What war caused Rebecca Harding Davis to set aside her writing for a time?

2. How long has Deborah stood at the spools at her job in the beginning of “Life in the Iron Mills”?

3. Rebecca Harding and L. Clarke Davis became engaged how long after meeting?

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. Where do Deborah’s coworkers tell her there a ball tonight in the beginning of “Life in the Iron Mills”?

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