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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. How many men are in the group of visitors that come through the mill where Hugh works in “Life in the Iron Mills”?
(a) 2-3
(b) 8-9
(c) 5-6
(d) 10-11

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

3. How many years in jail is Deborah sentenced in “Life in the Iron Mills”?
(a) 5
(b) 3
(c) 10
(d) 18

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

5. How many hands are employed at the iron mill where Hugh works in “Life in the Iron Mills”?
(a) 1,200
(b) 5,000
(c) 800
(d) 2,100

Short Answer Questions

1. In what year did the author of “A Biographical Interpretation” republish Life in the Iron Mills and Other Stories?

2. The narrator of “The Wife’s Story” recalls a time in Paris when she had gone to whose studio outside of the city to see her “Horse-Fair”?

3. What word used in “Life in the Iron Mills” refers to a side of cured pork?

4. How many children did Rebecca Harding Davis have?

5. Rebecca Harding Davis met and became acquainted with whom while staying with Nathanial Hawthorne?

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