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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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. May
(c) Mr. Jones
(d) Mr. Peters

2. Who throws Deborah money as the visiting men at the mill depart in “Life in the Iron Mills”?
(a) Mr. Clarke
(b) Mr. Mitchell
(c) Mr. Wolfe
(d) Mr. Kirby

3. Where did the author of “A Biographical Interpretation” supposedly find a collection of Rebecca Harding Davis’s works?
(a) Her mother’s attic
(b) A junk shop
(c) A feminist bookstore
(d) A rare bookstore

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

5. In what year did the author of “A Biographical Interpretation” republish Life in the Iron Mills and Other Stories?
(a) 1988
(b) 1969
(c) 1972
(d) 1992

6. The narrator in the beginning of “Life in the Iron Mills” refers to the reader as “You, Egoist, or Pantheist, or” what?
(a) Leonine
(b) Argentine
(c) Arminian
(d) Polarized

7. Mitchell claims in “Life in the Iron Mills,” “Reform is born of need, not” what?
(a) Empathy
(b) Pity
(c) Poverty
(d) Criticism

8. How many children did Rebecca Harding Davis have?
(a) 2
(b) 1
(c) 3
(d) 7

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

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

11. What word does the narrator use to describe Hugh Wolfe’s infancy in “Life in the Iron Mills”?
(a) Joyful
(b) Liberated
(c) Plentiful
(d) Starved

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

13. 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) Old money
(b) Politics and corruption
(c) Secrecy and politeness
(d) School-learning

14. How does the narrator describe Janey’s eyes in “Life in the Iron Mills”?
(a) Armenian
(b) Spanish
(c) Milesian
(d) Mexican

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How many hands are employed at the iron mill where Hugh works in “Life in the Iron Mills”?

2. What is the name of the publisher’s wife whom Rebecca Harding Davis became close friends with?

3. Rebecca Harding Davis is credited with over how many published works?

4. How does the narrator describe Hugh Wolfe’s face in “Life in the Iron Mills”?

5. Rebecca Harding Davis was the eldest of how many children in her family?

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