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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 does Mitchell refer to as “the cure for all the world’s diseases” in “Life in the Iron Mills”?
(a) Beauty
(b) Justice
(c) Money
(d) Honor

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

3. The mill where Hugh Wolfe works makes iron for what in “Life in the Iron Mills”?
(a) Skyscrapers
(b) War weaponry
(c) Steam ships
(d) Railroads

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

5. What establishment does the narrator describe across the street when she looks out window in the beginning of “Life in the Iron Mills”?
(a) A grocer’s shop
(b) A funeral parlor
(c) A tavern
(d) A barbershop

Short Answer Questions

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

2. “Life in the Iron Mills” is regarded by many academics as the beginning of what movement in American literature?

3. The narrator tells the reader in the beginning of “Life in the Iron Mills,” I will tell you plainly that I have a great hope; and I bring it to you to be” what?

4. How many men are in the group of visitors that come through the mill where Hugh works in “Life in the Iron Mills”?

5. How many centuries ago does the narrator describe Christ rising up from the people in “Life in the Iron Mills”?

Short Essay Questions

1. How would you describe the setting of “Life in the Iron Mills”? What tone is established through the story’s setting?

2. How did the outbreak of the Civil War impact Rebecca Harding Davis’s work, according to the author of “A Biographical Interpretation”?

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

4. What does the korl woman in “Life in the Iron Mills” represent symbolically?

5. How does the author of “A Biographical Interpretation” depict Rebecca Harding Davis’s relationship with her first publisher?

6. Who are the visitors that come to the mill in “Life in the Iron Mills”? Where do they go when they arrive?

7. How is Hugh’s death described in “Life in the Iron Mills”? How does Hugh die?

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

9. What does Hugh look down on from his prison window at in “Life in the Iron Mills”? What does this scene make him realize?

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

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