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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. On what date did Rebecca Harding Davis die?
(a) October 3, 1896
(b) July 7, 1901
(c) September 29, 1910
(d) September 16, 1889

2. Rebecca Harding Davis supported her young family by working as an editor for what publication?
(a) The New York Times
(b) The Washington Journal
(c) The Philadelphia Inquirer
(d) The Boston Globe

3. Where did Rebecca Harding Davis largely grow up?
(a) Huntington, Virginia
(b) Montclair, New Jersey
(c) Wheeling, West Virginia
(d) Little Rock, Arkansas

4. What is the name of the judge that sentenced Hugh Wolfe in “Life in the Iron Mills”?
(a) Judge Williams
(b) Judge Carter
(c) Judge Anderson
(d) Judge Day

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

6. What is the name of the lawyer that the judge appoints to Hugh Wolfe in “Life in the Iron Mills”?
(a) Mr. Smith
(b) Mr. Clarke
(c) Mr. May
(d) Mr. Gibson

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

8. What is the name of the man that goes about town lighting the lamps at dusk in “Life in the Iron Mills”?
(a) Neff Sanders
(b) Mr. Clarke
(c) Mr. Mitchell
(d) Joe Hill

9. What is the name of the overseer that comes with the visiting men to the mill in “Life in the Iron Mills”?
(a) Mr. Clarke
(b) Mr. Mitchell
(c) Mr. Kirk
(d) Mr. Wolfe

10. Where was Rebecca Harding Davis born?
(a) New York, New York
(b) Washington, Pennsylvania
(c) Wheeling, West Virginia
(d) New Hope, Pennsylvania

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

12. Who was the publisher that accepted “Life in the Iron Mills” immediately and began a long friendship with Rebecca Harding Davis?
(a) Walker H. Macy
(b) James T. Fields
(c) William B. Peters
(d) James S. Stoudt

13. When was Waiting for the Verdict published?
(a) 1867
(b) 1839
(c) 1898
(d) 1811

14. The narrator describes the mill workers in the beginning of “Life in the Iron Mills” as “laired in by day in dens of drunkenness and” what?
(a) Tyranny
(b) Misery
(c) Rebellion
(d) Infamy

15. 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) Henderson
(d) Peters

Short Answer Questions

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

2. On what date were L. Clarke Davis and Rebecca Harding Davis married?

3. Where does the narrator say she keeps the korl statue in the end of “Life in the Iron Mills”?

4. What is the mill-owner’s son’s reply in French when Dr. May asks him, “Have you many such hands as this? What are you going to do with them? Keep them at puddling iron?”

5. What does Mitchell refer to as “the cure for all the world’s diseases” in “Life in the Iron Mills”?

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