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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How long has Deborah stood at the spools at her job in the beginning of “Life in the Iron Mills”?
(a) 8 hours
(b) 10 hours
(c) 12 hours
(d) 6 hours

2. Where does Deborah go to live after serving her jail sentence in “Life in the Iron Mills”?
(a) With Janey and her husband
(b) With Old Wolfe
(c) With her mother
(d) With the Quakers

3. On what date were L. Clarke Davis and Rebecca Harding Davis married?
(a) April 3, 1869
(b) March 12, 1885
(c) September 2, 1905
(d) March 5, 1863

4. What Biblical figure, the son of Isaac, does the narrator denote having been deprived of his birthright in “Life in the Iron Mills”?
(a) Abel
(b) Esau
(c) Peter
(d) Cain

5. The narrator compares the “wild, eager face” of the sculpture in “Life in the Iron Mills” to what?
(a) A seductive snake’s
(b) A starving wolf’s
(c) An enraged goddess’s
(d) A hungry child’s

Short Answer Questions

1. Of Hugh Wolfe, the narrator says in “Life in the Iron Mills,” “Yet he was kind to her: it was his nature to be kind, even to the very” what?

2. From whom did Deborah presumably steal the money in “Life in the Iron Mills”?

3. How many years in jail is Deborah sentenced in “Life in the Iron Mills”?

4. What nonprofit literary publisher published Life in the Iron Mills and Other Stories, including “A Biographical Interpretation”?

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

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