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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Waiting for the Verdict is a novel about what?
(a) Pre-Civil War racial tensions
(b) The Spanish Inquisition
(c) The Mexican American War
(d) The Oklahoma Dust Bowl

2. Who throws Deborah money as the visiting men at the mill depart in “Life in the Iron Mills”?
(a) Mr. Kirby
(b) Mr. Clarke
(c) Mr. Wolfe
(d) Mr. Mitchell

3. How many men are in the group of visitors that come through the mill where Hugh works in “Life in the Iron Mills”?
(a) 10-11
(b) 5-6
(c) 2-3
(d) 8-9

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

5. How many children did Rebecca Harding Davis have?
(a) 3
(b) 7
(c) 2
(d) 1

Short Answer Questions

1. The character called Mitchell in “Life in the Iron Mills” is said to be an amateur what?

2. What Biblical figure, the son of Isaac, does the narrator denote having been deprived of his birthright in “Life in the Iron Mills”?

3. 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?

4. What does Hugh use to commit suicide in jail in “Life in the Iron Mills”?

5. Where was Rebecca Harding Davis born?

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