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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) Ralph Waldo Emerson
(b) Henry Thoreau
(c) Walt Whitman
(d) Susan B. Anthony

2. By what nickname is Hugh Wolfe called in the mill in “Life in the Iron Mills”?
(a) Molly Wolfe
(b) Old Wolfe
(c) Big Bad Wolfe
(d) Grandma

3. By what name does the narrator say she called her husband in their first six months of marriage in “The Wife’s Story”?
(a) Andrew
(b) Daniel
(c) Michael
(d) James

4. By what name does the narrator call the “refuse from the ore after the pig-metal is run” in “Life in the Iron Mills”?
(a) Tar
(b) Quartz
(c) Korl
(d) Tarp

5. The narrator says in “Life in the Iron Mills,” “About this man Mitchell hung the impalpable atmosphere belonging to the” what?
(a) Royal classes
(b) Thoroughbred gentleman
(c) Lowest class
(d) Undercover policeman

Short Answer Questions

1. Deborah tells Hugh when she brings him food at work that she fears the ale is a bit what, in “Life in the Iron Mills”?

2. How many men are in the group of visitors that come through the mill where Hugh works in “Life in the Iron Mills”?

3. The narrator in “Life in the Iron Mills” describes Hugh Wolfe as “no favorite in the mill; he had the taint of” what on him?

4. How long after her marriage does the narrator of “The Wife’s Story” say she and her husband moved?

5. When was Rebecca Harding Davis’s last essay, “The Disease of Money-Getting,” published?

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