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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. By what nickname is Hugh Wolfe called in the mill in “Life in the Iron Mills”?
(a) Old Wolfe
(b) Molly Wolfe
(c) Grandma
(d) Big Bad Wolfe

2. 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?
(a) 10 miles
(b) 1 mile
(c) ½ mile
(d) 2 miles

3. What broken figure does the narrator describe as “pointing upward from the mantle shelf” in the beginning of “Life in the Iron Mills”?
(a) A lion
(b) A goddess
(c) An angel
(d) A tiger

4. What does Mitchell refer to as “the cure for all the world’s diseases” in “Life in the Iron Mills”?
(a) Honor
(b) Justice
(c) Money
(d) Beauty

5. The narrator says in “Life in the Iron Mills,” “About this man Mitchell hung the impalpable atmosphere belonging to the” what?
(a) Undercover policeman
(b) Lowest class
(c) Royal classes
(d) Thoroughbred gentleman

Short Answer Questions

1. By what name does the narrator call the “refuse from the ore after the pig-metal is run” in “Life in the Iron Mills”?

2. On what date were L. Clarke Davis and Rebecca Harding Davis married?

3. Of whom does the narrator say Hugh had found “a Man all- knowing, all-seeing, crowned by Nature, reigning” in “Life in the Iron Mills”?

4. Where does Deborah go to live after serving her jail sentence in “Life in the Iron Mills”?

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

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