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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Where did Rebecca Harding Davis largely grow up?
(a) Huntington, Virginia
(b) Wheeling, West Virginia
(c) Montclair, New Jersey
(d) Little Rock, Arkansas

3. What word from “Life in the Iron Mills” means the state of being at rest, calm, or asleep?
(a) Repose
(b) Denouement
(c) Parlance
(d) Interim

4. How is Deborah related to Hugh Wolfe in “Life in the Iron Mills”?
(a) She’s his sister
(b) She’s his daughter
(c) She’s his aunt
(d) She’s his cousin

5. 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) Poverty and Godliness
(b) Grossness and crime, and hard, grinding labor
(c) Taverns and brothels and wherever sick men live
(d) Art and beauty based on memories of his youth

Short Answer Questions

1. One of the visiting men tells the owner’s son at the mill in “Life in the Iron Mills,” “If it were not that you must have heard it so often, I would tell you that your works looks like” what?

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

3. Hugh’s legs are describes as being ironed because he made how many attempts at escape from jail in “Life in the Iron Mills”?

4. What does Deborah begin to eat for dinner after returning from the cotton mill in the beginning of “Life in the Iron Mills”?

5. The narrator in “Life in the Iron Mills” describes “man’s law” as that “which seizes on one” what?

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