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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. One of the men that visits the mill along with other men in “Life in the Iron Mills” is the son of which of the mill-owners?
(a) Mr. May
(b) Mr. Peters
(c) Mr. Jones
(d) Mr. Kirby

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

3. How many years in jail is Deborah sentenced in “Life in the Iron Mills”?
(a) 3
(b) 5
(c) 18
(d) 10

4. How does the narrator describe Janey’s eyes in “Life in the Iron Mills”?
(a) Armenian
(b) Spanish
(c) Milesian
(d) Mexican

5. Rebecca Harding Davis is credited with over how many published works?
(a) 50
(b) 20
(c) 500
(d) 100

Short Answer Questions

1. What school was Rebecca Harding Davis sent to attend at the age of 14?

2. What kind of bird does the narrator describe chirping desolately beside her in a cage in the beginning of “Life in the Iron Mills”?

3. Rebecca Harding and L. Clarke Davis met where?

4. What sentence does Hugh Wolfe receive in “Life in the Iron Mills”?

5. By what name does the narrator call the “refuse from the ore after the pig-metal is run” in “Life in the Iron Mills”?

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