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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. What Biblical figure, the son of Isaac, does the narrator denote having been deprived of his birthright in “Life in the Iron Mills”?
(a) Cain
(b) Abel
(c) Esau
(d) Peter

2. What word from “Life in the Iron Mills” means the state of being at rest, calm, or asleep?
(a) Parlance
(b) Interim
(c) Repose
(d) Denouement

3. What broken figure does the narrator describe as “pointing upward from the mantle shelf” in the beginning of “Life in the Iron Mills”?
(a) A goddess
(b) A lion
(c) An angel
(d) A tiger

4. What establishment does the narrator describe across the street when she looks out window in the beginning of “Life in the Iron Mills”?
(a) A barbershop
(b) A grocer’s shop
(c) A tavern
(d) A funeral parlor

5. What feeder at the mill does Hugh look down on at the marketplace from his cell in “Life in the Iron Mills”?
(a) Pete Small
(b) Mr. Peters
(c) Neff Sanders
(d) Mr. Clarke

Short Answer 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”?

2. What word from “Life in the Iron Mills” means given or characterized by joking?

3. Of Deborah’s thoughts on Hugh in “Life in the Iron Mills,” the narrator says, “She knew, that, down under all the vileness and coarseness of his life, there was a groping passion for whatever was” what?

4. What Latin phrase, translated as “Hungry and thirsty, his soul faints him” is used in “Life in the Iron Mills”?

5. What is the name of the lawyer that the judge appoints to Hugh Wolfe in “Life in the Iron Mills”?

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