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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Anne.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where did the author of “A Biographical Interpretation” supposedly find a collection of Rebecca Harding Davis’s works?
(a) A rare bookstore
(b) A junk shop
(c) A feminist bookstore
(d) Her mother’s attic

2. The narrator describes a white bust of whom in the library of their home in “The Wife’s Story”?
(a) Echo
(b) Aphrodite
(c) Psyche
(d) Athena

3. What word does the narrator use to describe Hugh Wolfe’s infancy in “Life in the Iron Mills”?
(a) Joyful
(b) Plentiful
(c) Liberated
(d) Starved

4. What is the name of the publisher’s wife whom Rebecca Harding Davis became close friends with?
(a) Margaret Winchield
(b) Mary Richardson
(c) Annie Adams Fields
(d) Anne Elizabeth Browning

5. The narrator states in the beginning of “Life in the Iron Mills,” “The idiosyncrasy of this town is” what?
(a) Cleanliness
(b) Sunshine
(c) Paint
(d) Smoke

Short Answer Questions

1. Mitchell claims in “Life in the Iron Mills,” “Reform is born of need, not” what?

2. Of Hugh Wolfe, the narrator says in “Life in the Iron Mills,” “His soul within him was smothering to death; he wanted so much, thought so much, and knew” what?

3. 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?

4. How does the narrator describe the weather in the opening of “Life in the Iron Mills”?

5. When was Waiting for the Verdict published?

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