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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 word used in “Life in the Iron Mills” refers to a crystalline alkaloid used as a pesticide?
(a) Iodine
(b) DDT
(c) Strychnine
(d) Aspartame

2. According to the author of “A Biographical Interpretation,” Rebecca Harding Davis wrote an article speaking out against what movement?
(a) The abolitionist movement
(b) The prohibition movement
(c) The women’s rights movement
(d) The American Realism movement

3. The mill-owner’s son tells his companions in “Life in the Iron Mills,” “If I had the making of men, these men who do the lowest part of the world’s work should be” what?
(a) Put out of their misery
(b) Machines
(c) Robots
(d) Slaves

4. What school was Rebecca Harding Davis sent to attend at the age of 14?
(a) St. Mary School for Young Women
(b) Washington Female Seminary
(c) Anderson Miller Women’s School
(d) St. Jude Episcopal School for Girls

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How long has Deborah stood at the spools at her job in the beginning of “Life in the Iron Mills”?

2. Of Hugh Wolfe, the narrator says in “Life in the Iron Mills,” “Yet he was kind to her: it was his nature to be kind, even to the very” what?

3. 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?

4. Of Hugh Wolfe, the narrator says in “Life in the Iron Mills,” “His soul within him was smothering to death; he wanted so much, thought so much, and knew” what?

5. What war caused Rebecca Harding Davis to set aside her writing for a time?

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