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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through A Biographical Interpretation.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When was Rebecca Harding Davis born?
(a) 1916
(b) 1831
(c) 1865
(d) 1911

2. Of the sculpture discovered by the visitors at the iron mill in “Life in the Iron Mills,” the narrator says, “There was not one line of beauty or grace in it: a nude woman’s form, muscular, grown coarse with labor, the powerful limbs instinct with some one poignant” what?
(a) Plea
(b) Longing
(c) Belief
(d) Pregnancy

3. The character called Mitchell in “Life in the Iron Mills” is said to be an amateur what?
(a) Gymnast
(b) Hypnotist
(c) Opera singer
(d) Comedian

4. The narrator in the beginning of “Life in the Iron Mills” refers to the reader as “You, Egoist, or Pantheist, or” what?
(a) Polarized
(b) Leonine
(c) Argentine
(d) Arminian

5. 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?
(a) Beautiful and pure
(b) Available to love
(c) Freedom
(d) Full of comfort

Short Answer Questions

1. Rebecca Harding and L. Clarke Davis became engaged how long after meeting?

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

3. What feeder at the mill does Hugh look down on at the marketplace from his cell in “Life in the Iron Mills”?

4. What kind of bird does the narrator describe chirping desolately beside her in a cage in the beginning of “Life in the Iron Mills”?

5. What Latin phrase, translated as “Hungry and thirsty, his soul faints him” is used in “Life in the Iron Mills”?

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