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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What Greek goddess of love and beauty does the narrator describe a sculpture of in “Life in the Iron Mills”?
(a) Achilles
(b) Echo
(c) Athena
(d) Aphrodite

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

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”?
(a) A parakeet
(b) A canary
(c) A parrot
(d) A sparrow

4. The narrator in “Life in the Iron Mills” describes Hugh Wolfe as “A morbid, gloomy man, untaught, unled, left to feed his soul in” what?
(a) Grossness and crime, and hard, grinding labor
(b) Taverns and brothels and wherever sick men live
(c) Art and beauty based on memories of his youth
(d) Poverty and Godliness

5. How many years in jail is Deborah sentenced in “Life in the Iron Mills”?
(a) 3
(b) 5
(c) 18
(d) 10

6. What deformity is Deborah said to be afflicted with in “Life in the Iron Mills”?
(a) She is blind
(b) She is hunchbacked
(c) She is an amputee
(d) She is deaf

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

8. Deborah tells Hugh when she brings him food at work that she fears the ale is a bit what, in “Life in the Iron Mills”?
(a) Moldy
(b) Sweet
(c) Sour
(d) Bitter

9. Rebecca Harding Davis was the eldest of how many children in her family?
(a) 2
(b) 5
(c) 4
(d) 3

10. According to the author of “A Biographical Interpretation,” Rebecca Harding Davis wrote an article speaking out against what movement?
(a) The women’s rights movement
(b) The prohibition movement
(c) The American Realism movement
(d) The abolitionist movement

11. 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?”
(a) Ce n’est pas mon affaire
(b) Ce n’est pas les bons temps
(c) Laissez faire
(d) Laissez les bons temps roules

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

13. The narrator in “Life in the Iron Mills” describes “man’s law” as that “which seizes on one” what?
(a) Isolated fact
(b) Person’s story
(c) Direct clue
(d) Motive

14. What does Hugh use to commit suicide in jail in “Life in the Iron Mills”?
(a) A police gun
(b) A bed sheet
(c) A piece of tin
(d) A rope

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Hugh’s charge for the theft of the money in “Life in the Iron Mills”?

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

3. 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”?

4. How many votes does the mill-owner’s son say his father brought to the polls for his candidate last November in “Life in the Iron Mills”?

5. The narrator compares the “wild, eager face” of the sculpture in “Life in the Iron Mills” to what?

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