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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. How many children did Rebecca Harding Davis have?
(a) 7
(b) 2
(c) 3
(d) 1
2. When was Margret Howth published?
(a) 1914
(b) 1861
(c) 1798
(d) 1884
3. Rebecca Harding Davis supported her young family by working as an editor for what publication?
(a) The New York Times
(b) The Philadelphia Inquirer
(c) The Boston Globe
(d) The Washington Journal
4. Rebecca Harding Davis met and became acquainted with whom while staying with Nathanial Hawthorne?
(a) Henry Thoreau
(b) Walt Whitman
(c) Ralph Waldo Emerson
(d) Susan B. Anthony
5. What sentence does Hugh Wolfe receive in “Life in the Iron Mills”?
(a) 3 years solitary confinement
(b) 2 years parole
(c) 5 years hard labor
(d) 19 years hard labor
Short Answer Questions
1. How is Deborah related to Hugh Wolfe in “Life in the Iron Mills”?
2. From whom did Deborah presumably steal the money in “Life in the Iron Mills”?
3. Who is the town physician who comes with the visiting men to the mill in “Life in the Iron Mills”?
4. Who throws Deborah money as the visiting men at the mill depart in “Life in the Iron Mills”?
5. Where does the narrator say she keeps the korl statue in the end of “Life in the Iron Mills”?
Short Essay Questions
1. How would you describe the ending of “Life in the Iron Mills”? Does the story end on a happy or sad note?
2. How is the character of Janey described in “Life in the Iron Mills”? What is Janey’s relationship to the other characters?
3. How does the author of “A Biographical Interpretation” depict Rebecca Harding Davis’s relationship with her first publisher?
4. What decision does Hugh reach when he goes to attempt to return the money in “Life in the Iron Mills”? Why?
5. How is the sculpted figure discovered by one of the visitors at the mill described in “Life in the Iron Mills”?
6. When did Rebecca Harding Davis write “Life in the Iron Mills”? Who published it?
7. What does the korl woman in “Life in the Iron Mills” represent symbolically?
8. What are the impressions of the visitors when they see the sculpture in “Life in the Iron Mills”?
9. What does Deb attempt to give Hugh after they return home from the mill in “Life in the Iron Mills”? How does Hugh respond?
10. How does the narrator describe Hugh’s interaction with Deborah when she brings him dinner at the mill in “Life in the Iron Mills”?
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