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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. On what date did Rebecca Harding Davis die?
(a) October 3, 1896
(b) September 29, 1910
(c) September 16, 1889
(d) July 7, 1901

2. The narrator says in “Life in the Iron Mills,” “Man cannot live by” what?
(a) Love alone
(b) Money alone
(c) Work alone
(d) Philosophy alone

3. How many hands are employed at the iron mill where Hugh works in “Life in the Iron Mills”?
(a) 2,100
(b) 5,000
(c) 1,200
(d) 800

4. How is Deborah related to Hugh Wolfe in “Life in the Iron Mills”?
(a) She’s his daughter
(b) She’s his aunt
(c) She’s his sister
(d) She’s his cousin

5. What night of the week is it that Deborah brings Hugh his dinner at the mill in the beginning of “Life in the Iron Mills”?
(a) Tuesday
(b) Saturday
(c) Sunday
(d) Monday

Short Answer Questions

1. What Greek goddess of love and beauty does the narrator describe a sculpture of in “Life in the Iron Mills”?

2. Mitchell says of the laborers at the iron mill in “Life in the Iron Mills,” “Let them have a clear idea of the rights of the soul, and I’ll venture next week they’ll” what?

3. What word from “Life in the Iron Mills” means the state of being at rest, calm, or asleep?

4. What nonprofit literary publisher published Life in the Iron Mills and Other Stories, including “A Biographical Interpretation”?

5. The narrator in the beginning of “Life in the Iron Mills” refers to the reader as “You, Egoist, or Pantheist, or” what?

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