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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Of whom does the narrator say Hugh had found “a Man all- knowing, all-seeing, crowned by Nature, reigning” in “Life in the Iron Mills”?
(a) Mr. Kirby
(b) Mr. Clarke
(c) Mr. Wolfe
(d) Mr. Mitchell

2. What word does the narrator use to describe Hugh Wolfe’s infancy in “Life in the Iron Mills”?
(a) Starved
(b) Joyful
(c) Plentiful
(d) Liberated

3. The narrator in “Life in the Iron Mills” describes Hugh Wolfe as “A morbid, gloomy man, untaught, unled, left to feed his soul in” what?
(a) Poverty and Godliness
(b) Grossness and crime, and hard, grinding labor
(c) Taverns and brothels and wherever sick men live
(d) Art and beauty based on memories of his youth

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. The woman who stays behind at the jail after Hugh’s suicide is described as a Quaker or what, “as they call themselves” in “Life in the Iron Mills”?

2. What does Hugh use to commit suicide in jail in “Life in the Iron Mills”?

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”?

4. What is the mill-owner’s son’s reply in French when Dr. May asks him, “Have you many such hands as this? What are you going to do with them? Keep them at puddling iron?”

5. Hugh’s legs are describes as being ironed because he made how many attempts at escape from jail in “Life in the Iron Mills”?

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