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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. Wolfe
(b) Mr. Kirk
(c) Mr. Clarke
(d) Mr. Mitchell

2. The narrator tells the reader in the beginning of “Life in the Iron Mills,” I will tell you plainly that I have a great hope; and I bring it to you to be” what?
(a) Tested
(b) Remembered
(c) Digested
(d) Embraced

3. 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) Monday
(b) Tuesday
(c) Sunday
(d) Saturday

4. Of Deborah, the narrator says in “Life in the Iron Mills,” “Perhaps the weak, flaccid wretch had some stimulant in her pale life to keep her up—some love or hope, it might be, or urgent need. When that stimulant was gone, she would take to” what?
(a) Opium
(b) The river
(c) Lacquer
(d) Whiskey

5. What word from “Life in the Iron Mills” means slow, dull, or sluggish?
(a) Tainted
(b) Torrid
(c) Torpid
(d) Trepid

Short Answer Questions

1. When was Rebecca Harding Davis’s last essay, “The Disease of Money-Getting,” published?

2. Janey tells Deborah that “the father” is in the stone house with whom in the beginning of “Life in the Iron Mills”?

3. The narrator describes Hugh Wolfe as a furnace-tender at one of whose rolling-mills in “Life in the Iron Mills”?

4. How is Deborah related to Hugh Wolfe in “Life in the Iron Mills”?

5. Dr. May says in “Life in the Iron Mills,” “That is true philosophy. Drift with the stream, because you cannot” what?

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