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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. What is the name of the jailer in “Life in the Iron Mills”?
2. What Latin phrase, translated as “Hungry and thirsty, his soul faints him” is used in “Life in the Iron Mills”?
3. Dr. May says in “Life in the Iron Mills,” “That is true philosophy. Drift with the stream, because you cannot” what?
4. One of the men that visits the mill along with other men in “Life in the Iron Mills” is the son of which of the mill-owners?
5. What is the mill-owner’s son’s reply in French when Dr. May asks him, “Have you many such hands as this? What are you going to do with them? Keep them at puddling iron?”
Short Essay Questions
1. How did Rebecca Harding meet L. Clarke Davis? Where did they first meet, according to the author of “A Biographical Interpretation”?
2. When did Rebecca Harding Davis write “Life in the Iron Mills”? Who published it?
3. 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?
4. What are the impressions of the visitors when they see the sculpture in “Life in the Iron Mills”?
5. Who did Rebecca Harding Davis meet on her first trip North, according to the author of “A Biographical Interpretation”?
6. What does Deb do when she returns home in the beginning of “Life in the Iron Mills”?
7. How is the sculpted figure discovered by one of the visitors at the mill described in “Life in the Iron Mills”?
8. How is the plot of “Life in the Iron Mills” structured? Are there subplots in the story?
9. What exchange takes place between Deborah and the Quaker woman at the jail in “Life in the Iron Mills”?
10. What do the visitors at the mill tell Hugh Wolfe regarding his future as an artist in “Life in the Iron Mills”?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Describe and discuss the narrative style and setting of “The Wife’s Story.” What clues in the text indicate the time period in which the story takes place? Where in the United States is the story set? Is the story related from first, second, or third person?
Essay Topic 2
Examine and discuss the theme of poverty in “Life in the Mills.” How is poverty a deciding factor in the fates of the protagonists? Do you believe the protagonists in the story have a way out of their situation? Why or why not?
Essay Topic 3
Poverty and Oppression in Life in the Iron Mills and Other Stories
a. Discuss the theme of oppression seen in “Life in the Iron Mills.” What is the origin of this oppression? Is the antagonist of the story a person or a concept?
b. How does the theme of oppression apply to “The Wife’s Story” and “Anne”? In what ways are the protagonists of these stories oppressed?
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