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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Wife's Story.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to the author of “A Biographical Interpretation,” Rebecca Harding Davis wrote an article speaking out against what movement?
(a) The American Realism movement
(b) The prohibition movement
(c) The women’s rights movement
(d) The abolitionist movement

2. When Hugh decides to keep the money in “Life in the Iron Mills,” he realizes of his watch at the mill, “He need not go, need never go again, thank God! – shaking off the thought with” what?
(a) A shudder of grief
(b) Critical irony
(c) Unmistakable joy
(d) Unspeakable loathing

3. On what date were L. Clarke Davis and Rebecca Harding Davis married?
(a) March 12, 1885
(b) April 3, 1869
(c) September 2, 1905
(d) March 5, 1863

4. The narrator in “The Wife’s Story” says she grew up in what state?
(a) Massachusetts
(b) Vermont
(c) Idaho
(d) New Hampshire

5. Where was “Life in the Iron Mills” first published?
(a) The Atlantic Monthly
(b) The Reader’s Digest
(c) The New Yorker
(d) The Pennsylvania Review

Short Answer Questions

1. What word does the narrator use to refer to a nickname in “Life in the Iron Mills”?

2. At what time does Deborah return home from the cotton mill in the beginning of “Life in the Iron Mills”?

3. By what name does the narrator say she called her husband in their first six months of marriage in “The Wife’s Story”?

4. What is the name of the overseer that comes with the visiting men to the mill in “Life in the Iron Mills”?

5. What does Mitchell refer to as “the cure for all the world’s diseases” in “Life in the Iron Mills”?

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