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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Hugh’s charge for the theft of the money in “Life in the Iron Mills”?
(a) Petty larceny
(b) Grand larceny
(c) Bearing false witness
(d) Heresy

2. The narrator compares the “wild, eager face” of the sculpture in “Life in the Iron Mills” to what?
(a) An enraged goddess’s
(b) A hungry child’s
(c) A seductive snake’s
(d) A starving wolf’s

3. 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 abolitionist movement
(d) The American Realism movement

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

5. Of Deborah, the narrator says in “Life in the Iron Mills,” “Perhaps the weak, flaccid wretch had some stimulant in her pale life to keep her up—some love or hope, it might be, or urgent need. When that stimulant was gone, she would take to” what?
(a) Whiskey
(b) Lacquer
(c) The river
(d) Opium

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

7. How does the narrator describe Hugh Wolfe’s face in “Life in the Iron Mills”?
(a) A meek, woman’s face
(b) A haggard face with slyness like a snake
(c) A round and glowing face
(d) A sly and jovial young man’s face

8. 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?
(a) Victims in the den
(b) Scaly wings
(c) Glistening teeth
(d) Pitchforks

9. 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”?
(a) 500
(b) 300
(c) 250
(d) 700

10. 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

11. What Latin phrase, translated as “Hungry and thirsty, his soul faints him” is used in “Life in the Iron Mills”?
(a) Semper fidelis
(b) Clamat au arian
(c) De profundis clamavi
(d) Scribet et libret

12. What is the name of Rebecca Harding Davis’s eldest son who became a writer and journalist?
(a) John Harding Davis
(b) James Harding Davis
(c) Peter Harding Davis
(d) Richard Harding Davis

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

14. What Biblical figure, the son of Isaac, does the narrator denote having been deprived of his birthright in “Life in the Iron Mills”?
(a) Peter
(b) Cain
(c) Esau
(d) Abel

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where was Rebecca Harding Davis born?

2. What word used in “Life in the Iron Mills” refers to a crystalline alkaloid used as a pesticide?

3. Of whom does the narrator say Hugh had found “a Man all- knowing, all-seeing, crowned by Nature, reigning” in “Life in the Iron Mills”?

4. What establishment does the narrator describe across the street when she looks out window in the beginning of “Life in the Iron Mills”?

5. Doctor May reads Hugh’s sentence to his wife from the newspaper how long after the night when they discussed the sculpture in “Life in the Iron Mills”?

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