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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where does Deborah go to live after serving her jail sentence in “Life in the Iron Mills”?
(a) With her mother
(b) With the Quakers
(c) With Janey and her husband
(d) With Old Wolfe

2. The narrator in “Life in the Iron Mills” describes Hugh Wolfe’s father as being an immigrant from where?
(a) Ireland
(b) Scotland
(c) Wales
(d) Germany

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

4. What is Hugh’s charge for the theft of the money in “Life in the Iron Mills”?
(a) Bearing false witness
(b) Petty larceny
(c) Grand larceny
(d) Heresy

5. When was “Life in the Iron Mills” first published in a periodical?
(a) July, 1912
(b) June, 1843
(c) April, 1861
(d) September, 1900

Short Answer Questions

1. What sentence does Hugh Wolfe receive in “Life in the Iron Mills”?

2. How many votes does the mill-owner’s son say his father brought to the polls for his candidate last November in “Life in the Iron Mills”?

3. What word used in “Life in the Iron Mills” refers to a crystalline alkaloid used as a pesticide?

4. From whom did Deborah presumably steal the money in “Life in the Iron Mills”?

5. Rebecca Harding Davis is credited with over how many published works?

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