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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Life in the Iron Mills.

Multiple Choice 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”?
(a) Sweet
(b) Bitter
(c) Sour
(d) Moldy

2. 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) Friend
(b) Believer
(c) Follower
(d) Pointer

3. Where does Deborah say Hugh was born in “Life in the Iron Mills”?
(a) The Derbyshire
(b) The flat prairie
(c) The mountain crags
(d) The lane moor

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

5. How is Deborah related to Hugh Wolfe in “Life in the Iron Mills”?
(a) She’s his aunt
(b) She’s his cousin
(c) She’s his sister
(d) She’s his daughter

Short Answer Questions

1. The narrator compares the “wild, eager face” of the sculpture in “Life in the Iron Mills” to what?

2. What word used in “Life in the Iron Mills” refers to a crystalline alkaloid used as a pesticide?

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?

4. What word used in “Life in the Iron Mills” refers to a side of cured pork?

5. At what time does Deborah return home from the cotton mill in the beginning of “Life in the Iron Mills”?

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