View a FREE sample

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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. From whom did Deborah presumably steal the money in “Life in the Iron Mills”?
(a) Dr. May
(b) Mr. Mitchell
(c) Mr. Kirby
(d) Mr. Wolfe

2. Where does Deborah say Hugh was born in “Life in the Iron Mills”?
(a) The Derbyshire
(b) The mountain crags
(c) The flat prairie
(d) The lane moor

3. What word used in “Life in the Iron Mills” refers to a side of cured pork?
(a) Flitch
(b) Curry
(c) Bandy
(d) Haggis

4. The narrator compares the “wild, eager face” of the sculpture in “Life in the Iron Mills” to what?
(a) A hungry child’s
(b) A seductive snake’s
(c) A starving wolf’s
(d) An enraged goddess’s

5. 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

Short Answer Questions

1. The narrator in “Life in the Iron Mills” says that it is nearly how long since the Wolfes lived in the boarding house in the beginning of the story?

2. By what name does the narrator call the “refuse from the ore after the pig-metal is run” in “Life in the Iron Mills”?

3. Rebecca Harding Davis was the eldest of how many children in her family?

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

5. Whom does Deborah feel a pang of jealousy about as she lay on the ash heap at Hugh’s job in “Life in the Iron Mills”?

(see the answer key)

This section contains 268 words (approx. 1 page at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample