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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Rebecca Harding Davis met and became acquainted with whom while staying with Nathanial Hawthorne?
(a) Walt Whitman
(b) Henry Thoreau
(c) Susan B. Anthony
(d) Ralph Waldo Emerson

2. According to the author of “A Biographical Interpretation,” Rebecca Harding Davis wrote an article speaking out against what movement?
(a) The women’s rights movement
(b) The abolitionist movement
(c) The American Realism movement
(d) The prohibition movement

3. Of the now shutting-down iron mill, Mitchell says in “Life in the Iron Mills,” “One could fancy these red smoldering lights to be the half-shut eyes of wild beasts, and the spectral figures their” what?
(a) Glistening teeth
(b) Victims in the den
(c) Scaly wings
(d) Pitchforks

4. When Hugh decides to keep the money in “Life in the Iron Mills,” he realizes of his watch at the mill, “He need not go, need never go again, thank God! – shaking off the thought with” what?
(a) A shudder of grief
(b) Unmistakable joy
(c) Unspeakable loathing
(d) Critical irony

5. The narrator says in “Life in the Iron Mills,” “Man cannot live by” what?
(a) Work alone
(b) Love alone
(c) Philosophy alone
(d) Money alone

Short Answer Questions

1. When was Margret Howth published?

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

3. Where does Deborah say Hugh was born in “Life in the Iron Mills”?

4. How long has Deborah stood at the spools at her job in the beginning of “Life in the Iron Mills”?

5. The narrator describes the mill workers in the beginning of “Life in the Iron Mills” as “laired in by day in dens of drunkenness and” what?

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