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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is the woman walking with George across the lawn as Anne drowses in the beginning of “Anne”?
(a) Deborah
(b) Sarah
(c) Janey
(d) Theresa

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

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

4. How does the narrator describe the weather in the opening of “Life in the Iron Mills”?
(a) Cloudy
(b) Windy
(c) Arid
(d) Sunny

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 American Realism movement
(c) The prohibition movement
(d) The women’s rights movement

Short Answer Questions

1. What character on the train in “Anne” is said to be the “chairman of the Woman’s National Society for the Examination of Prisons”?

2. Of the now shutting-down iron mill, Mitchell says in “Life in the Iron Mills,” “One could fancy these red smoldering lights to be the half-shut eyes of wild beasts, and the spectral figures their” what?

3. What Greek goddess of love and beauty does the narrator describe a sculpture of in “Life in the Iron Mills”?

4. What servant does Mrs. Palmer give her satchel to and ask him to carry it to the station in “Anne”?

5. What broken figure does the narrator describe as “pointing upward from the mantle shelf” in the beginning of “Life in the Iron Mills”?

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