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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Wife's Story.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Mitchell refer to as “the cure for all the world’s diseases” in “Life in the Iron Mills”?
(a) Justice
(b) Honor
(c) Beauty
(d) Money

2. What kind of tobacco does the narrator describe the drunken Irishmen puffing on in the beginning of “Life in the Iron Mills”?
(a) Lynchburg tobacco
(b) Lucky Strike tobacco
(c) Williamsburg tobacco
(d) Skydancer tobacco

3. Janey tells Deborah that “the father” is in the stone house with whom in the beginning of “Life in the Iron Mills”?
(a) Paul
(b) Haley
(c) Peters
(d) Henderson

4. “Life in the Iron Mills” is regarded by many academics as the beginning of what movement in American literature?
(a) Pulp fiction
(b) Post-modernism
(c) Dadaism
(d) Realism

5. Christ is described in “Life in the Iron Mills” as having stood “with the fishermen and harlots by the sea of” what?
(a) Islam
(b) Asia
(c) Judea
(d) Galilee

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. The narrator states in the beginning of “Life in the Iron Mills,” “The idiosyncrasy of this town is” what?

3. The narrator in “Life in the Iron Mills” describes “man’s law” as that “which seizes on one” what?

4. 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”?

5. The author of “A Biographical Interpretation” states that Rebecca Harding Davis grew up along what river?

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