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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. Who is the town physician who comes with the visiting men to the mill in “Life in the Iron Mills”?
(a) Dr. Mitchell
(b) Dr. Clarke
(c) Dr. Wolfe
(d) Dr. May

2. The narrator describes Hugh Wolfe as a furnace-tender at one of whose rolling-mills in “Life in the Iron Mills”?
(a) Kirby and John’s
(b) Anderson and Smith’s
(c) Peter and Paul’s
(d) Maxwell and Thoreau’s

3. Dr. May says in “Life in the Iron Mills,” “That is true philosophy. Drift with the stream, because you cannot” what?
(a) Answer for the current
(b) Dive deep enough to find bottom
(c) Face the harshness of the deep
(d) Swim against the current

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

5. The narrator in “The Wife’s Story” says there had been a time when she had dreamed of achieving whose stature?
(a) Eleanor Roosevelt’s
(b) Margaret Fuller’s
(c) Heidi C. Clark’s
(d) Susan B. Anthony’s

Short Answer Questions

1. What broken figure does the narrator describe as “pointing upward from the mantle shelf” in the beginning of “Life in the Iron Mills”?

2. “Life in the Iron Mills” is regarded by many academics as the beginning of what movement in American literature?

3. The mill where Hugh works in “Life in the Iron Mills” is described as being by the river and how far below the city-limits?

4. The mill-owner’s son tells his companions in “Life in the Iron Mills,” “If I had the making of men, these men who do the lowest part of the world’s work should be” what?

5. The author of “A Biographical Interpretation” states that Rebecca Harding Davis grew up along what river?

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