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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What word does the narrator use to refer to a nickname in “Life in the Iron Mills”?
(a) Sobriquet
(b) Moniker
(c) Handle
(d) Mariner

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

3. What broken figure does the narrator describe as “pointing upward from the mantle shelf” in the beginning of “Life in the Iron Mills”?
(a) A tiger
(b) An angel
(c) A goddess
(d) A lion

4. When was “Life in the Iron Mills” first published in a periodical?
(a) June, 1843
(b) April, 1861
(c) July, 1912
(d) September, 1900

5. The narrator in “Life in the Iron Mills” describes Hugh Wolfe as “no favorite in the mill; he had the taint of” what on him?
(a) Secrecy and politeness
(b) School-learning
(c) Politics and corruption
(d) Old money

6. When was Rebecca Harding Davis’s last essay, “The Disease of Money-Getting,” published?
(a) 1884
(b) 1798
(c) 1902
(d) 1911

7. One of the men that visits the mill along with other men in “Life in the Iron Mills” is the son of which of the mill-owners?
(a) Mr. Kirby
(b) Mr. Jones
(c) Mr. May
(d) Mr. Peters

8. Of Deborah’s thoughts on Hugh in “Life in the Iron Mills,” the narrator says, “She knew, that, down under all the vileness and coarseness of his life, there was a groping passion for whatever was” what?
(a) Freedom
(b) Beautiful and pure
(c) Full of comfort
(d) Available to love

9. 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”?
(a) Mr. Mitchell
(b) Old Wolfe
(c) Sarah
(d) Janey

10. What word from “Life in the Iron Mills” means slow, dull, or sluggish?
(a) Tainted
(b) Torrid
(c) Trepid
(d) Torpid

11. What school was Rebecca Harding Davis sent to attend at the age of 14?
(a) St. Jude Episcopal School for Girls
(b) Anderson Miller Women’s School
(c) St. Mary School for Young Women
(d) Washington Female Seminary

12. By what name does the narrator call the “refuse from the ore after the pig-metal is run” in “Life in the Iron Mills”?
(a) Tarp
(b) Quartz
(c) Korl
(d) Tar

13. What does Deborah begin to eat for dinner after returning from the cotton mill in the beginning of “Life in the Iron Mills”?
(a) Boiled cabbage
(b) Boiled potatoes
(c) Pork sausage
(d) Haggis and rice

14. 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) Judea
(c) Asia
(d) Galilee

15. From whom did Deborah presumably steal the money in “Life in the Iron Mills”?
(a) Mr. Mitchell
(b) Dr. May
(c) Mr. Wolfe
(d) Mr. Kirby

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. The mill where Hugh works in “Life in the Iron Mills” is described as being by the river and how far below the city-limits?

3. What kind of bird does the narrator describe chirping desolately beside her in a cage in the beginning of “Life in the Iron Mills”?

4. How does the narrator describe Janey’s eyes in “Life in the Iron Mills”?

5. The narrator says in “Life in the Iron Mills,” “About this man Mitchell hung the impalpable atmosphere belonging to the” what?

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