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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 was Waiting for the Verdict published?
(a) 1811
(b) 1839
(c) 1867
(d) 1898

2. What word does the narrator use in the beginning of “Life in the Iron Mills” to refer to a person who takes up an art, activity, or subject merely for amusement?
(a) Maestro
(b) Dilettante
(c) Debutante
(d) Diva

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

4. What war caused Rebecca Harding Davis to set aside her writing for a time?
(a) The Korean War
(b) The American Revolution
(c) The French and Indian War
(d) The U.S. Civil War

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How many men are in the group of visitors that come through the mill where Hugh works in “Life in the Iron Mills”?

2. Who throws Deborah money as the visiting men at the mill depart in “Life in the Iron Mills”?

3. Rebecca Harding Davis supported her young family by working as an editor for what publication?

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. The narrator compares the “wild, eager face” of the sculpture in “Life in the Iron Mills” to what?

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