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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. When was “Life in the Iron Mills” first published in a periodical?
(a) September, 1900
(b) April, 1861
(c) June, 1843
(d) July, 1912

2. On what date did Rebecca Harding Davis die?
(a) September 16, 1889
(b) October 3, 1896
(c) July 7, 1901
(d) September 29, 1910

3. By what name does the narrator call the “refuse from the ore after the pig-metal is run” in “Life in the Iron Mills”?
(a) Tarp
(b) Korl
(c) Tar
(d) Quartz

4. At what time does Deborah return home from the cotton mill in the beginning of “Life in the Iron Mills”?
(a) 10:00
(b) 3:00
(c) 11:00
(d) 1:00

5. Janey tells Deborah that “the father” is in the stone house with whom in the beginning of “Life in the Iron Mills”?
(a) Paul
(b) Haley
(c) Henderson
(d) Peters

Short Answer Questions

1. Of Deborah’s thoughts on Hugh in “Life in the Iron Mills,” the narrator says, “She knew, that, down under all the vileness and coarseness of his life, there was a groping passion for whatever was” what?

2. What Biblical figure, the son of Isaac, does the narrator denote having been deprived of his birthright in “Life in the Iron Mills”?

3. 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?

4. How many years in jail is Deborah sentenced in “Life in the Iron Mills”?

5. Who wrote “A Biographical Interpretation” of Rebecca Harding Davis’s “Life in the Iron Mills”?

Short Essay Questions

1. How is Hugh caught by the authorities in “Life in the Iron Mills”? What is Hugh charged with and sentenced?

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

3. How is the sculpted figure discovered by one of the visitors at the mill described in “Life in the Iron Mills”?

4. What exchange takes place between Deborah and the Quaker woman at the jail in “Life in the Iron Mills”?

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

6. What do the visitors at the mill tell Hugh Wolfe regarding his future as an artist in “Life in the Iron Mills”?

7. What happens to Deborah at the end of “Life in the Iron Mills”? What does the narrator reveal at the end of the story?

8. How would you describe the author’s use of dialogue in “Life in the Iron Mills”?

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

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

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