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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Anne.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The woman who stays behind at the jail after Hugh’s suicide is described as a Quaker or what, “as they call themselves” in “Life in the Iron Mills”?
(a) Friend
(b) Believer
(c) Follower
(d) Pointer

2. What word does the narrator use in the beginning of “Life in the Iron Mills” to refer to a person who takes up an art, activity, or subject merely for amusement?
(a) Debutante
(b) Diva
(c) Dilettante
(d) Maestro

3. The narrator says in “Life in the Iron Mills,” “About this man Mitchell hung the impalpable atmosphere belonging to the” what?
(a) Undercover policeman
(b) Lowest class
(c) Royal classes
(d) Thoroughbred gentleman

4. Rebecca Harding and L. Clarke Davis met where?
(a) Harrisburg, Pennsylvania
(b) New York, New York
(c) Boston, Massachusetts
(d) Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

5. On what date were L. Clarke Davis and Rebecca Harding Davis married?
(a) March 5, 1863
(b) April 3, 1869
(c) March 12, 1885
(d) September 2, 1905

Short Answer Questions

1. What establishment does the narrator describe across the street when she looks out window in the beginning of “Life in the Iron Mills”?

2. On what date did Rebecca Harding Davis die?

3. Hugh’s legs are describes as being ironed because he made how many attempts at escape from jail in “Life in the Iron Mills”?

4. What word from “Life in the Iron Mills” means given or characterized by joking?

5. Who is the woman walking with George across the lawn as Anne drowses in the beginning of “Anne”?

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