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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Wife's Story.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. The woman who stays behind at the jail after Hugh’s suicide is described as a Quaker or what, “as they call themselves” in “Life in the Iron Mills”?
(a) Follower
(b) Pointer
(c) Believer
(d) Friend
2. 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) Victims in the den
(b) Scaly wings
(c) Glistening teeth
(d) Pitchforks
3. The mill where Hugh Wolfe works makes iron for what in “Life in the Iron Mills”?
(a) Railroads
(b) War weaponry
(c) Skyscrapers
(d) Steam ships
4. 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?
(a) Tyranny
(b) Misery
(c) Infamy
(d) Rebellion
5. 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) Tarp
(c) Korl
(d) Quartz
Short Answer Questions
1. Where does Deborah go to live after serving her jail sentence in “Life in the Iron Mills”?
2. What word from “Life in the Iron Mills” means slow, dull, or sluggish?
3. Dr. May says in “Life in the Iron Mills,” “That is true philosophy. Drift with the stream, because you cannot” what?
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”?
5. The narrator in “The Wife’s Story” says there had been a time when she had dreamed of achieving whose stature?
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