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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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) Joe Hill
(c) Mr. Clarke
(d) Mr. Mitchell

2. The narrator describes Hugh Wolfe as a furnace-tender at one of whose rolling-mills in “Life in the Iron Mills”?
(a) Maxwell and Thoreau’s
(b) Peter and Paul’s
(c) Kirby and John’s
(d) Anderson and Smith’s

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Dr. May says in “Life in the Iron Mills,” “That is true philosophy. Drift with the stream, because you cannot” what?

2. 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”?

3. 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?

4. What kind of tobacco does the narrator describe the drunken Irishmen puffing on in the beginning of “Life in the Iron Mills”?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. Where did Rebecca Harding Davis grow up, according to the author of “A Biographical Interpretation”? How is her family described?

2. How did Rebecca Harding meet L. Clarke Davis? Where did they first meet, according to the author of “A Biographical Interpretation”?

3. Who did Rebecca Harding Davis meet on her first trip North, according to the author of “A Biographical Interpretation”?

4. When did Rebecca Harding Davis write “Life in the Iron Mills”? Who published it?

5. How does the author of “A Biographical Interpretation” describe Rebecca Harding Davis’s early years of marriage?

6. What is the basic story related in the plot of “Life in the Iron Mills”? How would you “sum up” the story in one or two sentences?

7. What does Deb do when she returns home in the beginning of “Life in the Iron Mills”?

8. What is Deb doing when her character is first introduced in “Life in the Iron Mills”?

9. How is Hugh’s demeanor in the jail described in “Life in the Iron Mills”? What are Deborah’s impressions when she sees Hugh?

10. What is the outcome for Hugh in the denouement of “Life in the Iron Mills”?

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