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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What word used in “Life in the Iron Mills” refers to a side of cured pork?
(a) Haggis
(b) Bandy
(c) Flitch
(d) Curry

2. What word used in “Life in the Iron Mills” refers to a crystalline alkaloid used as a pesticide?
(a) Iodine
(b) Aspartame
(c) DDT
(d) Strychnine

3. At what time does Deborah return home from the cotton mill in the beginning of “Life in the Iron Mills”?
(a) 1:00
(b) 10:00
(c) 3:00
(d) 11:00

4. 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?
(a) Beggars in the streets
(b) Rats that swarmed the cellar
(c) Dog that bit him
(d) Police that hold him down

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How does the narrator describe the weather in the opening of “Life in the Iron Mills”?

2. What is the name of the overseer that comes with the visiting men to the mill in “Life in the Iron Mills”?

3. 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?

4. What broken figure does the narrator describe as “pointing upward from the mantle shelf” in the beginning of “Life in the Iron Mills”?

5. The narrator says in “Life in the Iron Mills,” “Man cannot live by” what?

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