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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. How many men are in the group of visitors that come through the mill where Hugh works in “Life in the Iron Mills”?
(a) 5-6
(b) 2-3
(c) 10-11
(d) 8-9

2. Where do Deborah’s coworkers tell her there a ball tonight in the beginning of “Life in the Iron Mills”?
(a) Miss Boyle’s
(b) Miss Sarah’s
(c) Miss Potts’
(d) Miss Andrews’

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

4. 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) Glistening teeth
(b) Victims in the den
(c) Scaly wings
(d) Pitchforks

5. What is the mill-owner’s son’s reply in French when Dr. May asks him, “Have you many such hands as this? What are you going to do with them? Keep them at puddling iron?”
(a) Laissez les bons temps roules
(b) Ce n’est pas les bons temps
(c) Ce n’est pas mon affaire
(d) Laissez faire

Short Answer Questions

1. Christ is described in “Life in the Iron Mills” as having stood “with the fishermen and harlots by the sea of” what?

2. What does the narrator say her husband bought after their marriage, “thinking to please me,” in “The Wife’s Story”?

3. The church that Hugh enters on the night he decides to keep the money is described by the narrator of “Life in the Iron Mills” as what?

4. What is the name of the publisher’s wife whom Rebecca Harding Davis became close friends with?

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

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