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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What kind of bird does the narrator describe chirping desolately beside her in a cage in the beginning of “Life in the Iron Mills”?
(a) A sparrow
(b) A parrot
(c) A parakeet
(d) A canary

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

3. Who wrote “A Biographical Interpretation” of Rebecca Harding Davis’s “Life in the Iron Mills”?
(a) Anne Bogart
(b) Tillie Olsen
(c) Clare Clifton
(d) Deborah Hedwall

4. How many votes does the mill-owner’s son say his father brought to the polls for his candidate last November in “Life in the Iron Mills”?
(a) 500
(b) 250
(c) 700
(d) 300

5. The narrator in “Life in the Iron Mills” describes “man’s law” as that “which seizes on one” what?
(a) Isolated fact
(b) Direct clue
(c) Person’s story
(d) Motive

6. What Latin phrase, translated as “Hungry and thirsty, his soul faints him” is used in “Life in the Iron Mills”?
(a) De profundis clamavi
(b) Semper fidelis
(c) Clamat au arian
(d) Scribet et libret

7. Mitchell claims in “Life in the Iron Mills,” “Reform is born of need, not” what?
(a) Criticism
(b) Poverty
(c) Empathy
(d) Pity

8. Doctor May reads Hugh’s sentence to his wife from the newspaper how long after the night when they discussed the sculpture in “Life in the Iron Mills”?
(a) 6 weeks
(b) 2 weeks
(c) 6 months
(d) 1 month

9. What is the name of the man that goes about town lighting the lamps at dusk in “Life in the Iron Mills”?
(a) Joe Hill
(b) Neff Sanders
(c) Mr. Clarke
(d) Mr. Mitchell

10. Of Hugh Wolfe, the narrator says in “Life in the Iron Mills,” “His soul within him was smothering to death; he wanted so much, thought so much, and knew” what?
(a) Only art
(b) Nothing
(c) So little
(d) Only himself

11. What is the name of the lawyer that the judge appoints to Hugh Wolfe in “Life in the Iron Mills”?
(a) Mr. Clarke
(b) Mr. May
(c) Mr. Smith
(d) Mr. Gibson

12. What sentence does Hugh Wolfe receive in “Life in the Iron Mills”?
(a) 5 years hard labor
(b) 3 years solitary confinement
(c) 19 years hard labor
(d) 2 years parole

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

14. What word from “Life in the Iron Mills” means slow, dull, or sluggish?
(a) Torpid
(b) Torrid
(c) Tainted
(d) Trepid

15. What action is referenced in “Life in the Iron Mills” as “the peculiar action of a man dying of thirst”?
(a) Slinking
(b) Clinging
(c) Pursing
(d) Clutching

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Mitchell refer to as “the cure for all the world’s diseases” in “Life in the Iron Mills”?

2. On what date were L. Clarke Davis and Rebecca Harding Davis married?

3. The narrator states in “Life in the Iron Mills,” “These great turning-days of life cast no shadow before, slip by unconsciously. Only a trifle, a little turn of the rudder, and the ship goes” where?

4. When was Margret Howth published?

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?

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