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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. Where do Deborah’s coworkers tell her there a ball tonight in the beginning of “Life in the Iron Mills”?
(a) Miss Andrews’
(b) Miss Potts’
(c) Miss Sarah’s
(d) Miss Boyle’s

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

3. What sentence does Hugh Wolfe receive in “Life in the Iron Mills”?
(a) 2 years parole
(b) 19 years hard labor
(c) 3 years solitary confinement
(d) 5 years hard labor

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

5. How many hands are employed at the iron mill where Hugh works in “Life in the Iron Mills”?
(a) 2,100
(b) 800
(c) 5,000
(d) 1,200

Short Answer Questions

1. What word from “Life in the Iron Mills” means given or characterized by joking?

2. The narrator in “Life in the Iron Mills” describes Hugh Wolfe’s father as being an immigrant from where?

3. Mitchell says of the laborers at the iron mill in “Life in the Iron Mills,” “Let them have a clear idea of the rights of the soul, and I’ll venture next week they’ll” what?

4. What does Hugh use to commit suicide in jail in “Life in the Iron Mills”?

5. Of Hugh Wolfe, the narrator says in “Life in the Iron Mills,” “Yet he was kind to her: it was his nature to be kind, even to the very” what?

Short Essay Questions

1. How is the setting described in “Life in the Iron Mills”? How does the setting in which the narrator exists differ from the setting of Deb and Hugh’s story?

2. What elements of social change did Rebecca Harding Davis encounter during finishing school?

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

4. How would you describe the ending of “Life in the Iron Mills”? Does the story end on a happy or sad note?

5. How would you describe the language style in “Life in the Iron Mills”?

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

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

8. How does the narrator describe Hugh’s interaction with Deborah when she brings him dinner at the mill in “Life in the Iron Mills”?

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

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

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