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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where does the narrator say she keeps the korl statue in the end of “Life in the Iron Mills”?
(a) On the front porch
(b) In a museum
(c) In a bank vault
(d) Behind a curtain

2. What is the name of the judge that sentenced Hugh Wolfe in “Life in the Iron Mills”?
(a) Judge Anderson
(b) Judge Carter
(c) Judge Williams
(d) Judge Day

3. Who was the publisher that accepted “Life in the Iron Mills” immediately and began a long friendship with Rebecca Harding Davis?
(a) James S. Stoudt
(b) William B. Peters
(c) Walker H. Macy
(d) James T. Fields

4. The narrator in “Life in the Iron Mills” describes Hugh Wolfe as “A morbid, gloomy man, untaught, unled, left to feed his soul in” what?
(a) Grossness and crime, and hard, grinding labor
(b) Poverty and Godliness
(c) Art and beauty based on memories of his youth
(d) Taverns and brothels and wherever sick men live

5. Hugh’s legs are describes as being ironed because he made how many attempts at escape from jail in “Life in the Iron Mills”?
(a) 8
(b) 4
(c) 5
(d) 2

Short Answer Questions

1. What action is referenced in “Life in the Iron Mills” as “the peculiar action of a man dying of thirst”?

2. Where was “Life in the Iron Mills” first published?

3. What is the name of the jailer in “Life in the Iron Mills”?

4. What is Hugh’s charge for the theft of the money in “Life in the Iron Mills”?

5. What is the name of the lawyer that the judge appoints to Hugh Wolfe in “Life in the Iron Mills”?

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