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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What Latin phrase, translated as “Hungry and thirsty, his soul faints him” is used in “Life in the Iron Mills”?
(a) Scribet et libret
(b) Clamat au arian
(c) De profundis clamavi
(d) Semper fidelis

2. 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?
(a) Misery
(b) Infamy
(c) Rebellion
(d) Tyranny

3. Where was “Life in the Iron Mills” first published?
(a) The New Yorker
(b) The Pennsylvania Review
(c) The Reader’s Digest
(d) The Atlantic Monthly

4. Deborah tells Hugh when she brings him food at work that she fears the ale is a bit what, in “Life in the Iron Mills”?
(a) Moldy
(b) Bitter
(c) Sour
(d) Sweet

5. Where did the author of “A Biographical Interpretation” supposedly find a collection of Rebecca Harding Davis’s works?
(a) A feminist bookstore
(b) Her mother’s attic
(c) A rare bookstore
(d) A junk shop

Short Answer Questions

1. Rebecca Harding Davis met and became acquainted with whom while staying with Nathanial Hawthorne?

2. Who is the town physician who comes with the visiting men to the mill in “Life in the Iron Mills”?

3. What kind of tobacco does the narrator describe the drunken Irishmen puffing on in the beginning of “Life in the Iron Mills”?

4. How is Deborah related to Hugh Wolfe in “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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