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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 is the name of the overseer that comes with the visiting men to the mill in “Life in the Iron Mills”?
(a) Mr. Clarke
(b) Mr. Wolfe
(c) Mr. Mitchell
(d) Mr. Kirk

2. Hugh’s legs are describes as being ironed because he made how many attempts at escape from jail in “Life in the Iron Mills”?
(a) 4
(b) 5
(c) 8
(d) 2

3. When Hugh decides to keep the money in “Life in the Iron Mills,” he realizes of his watch at the mill, “He need not go, need never go again, thank God! – shaking off the thought with” what?
(a) Critical irony
(b) A shudder of grief
(c) Unmistakable joy
(d) Unspeakable loathing

4. When was Margret Howth published?
(a) 1861
(b) 1798
(c) 1914
(d) 1884

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of Rebecca Harding Davis’s eldest son who became a writer and journalist?

2. When was Rebecca Harding Davis born?

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

4. What is the name of the lawyer that the judge appoints to Hugh Wolfe in “Life in the Iron Mills”?

5. Of the sculpture discovered by the visitors at the iron mill in “Life in the Iron Mills,” the narrator says, “There was not one line of beauty or grace in it: a nude woman’s form, muscular, grown coarse with labor, the powerful limbs instinct with some one poignant” what?

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