View a FREE sample

This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Wife's Story.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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) Rebellion
(b) Tyranny
(c) Infamy
(d) Misery

2. Rebecca Harding Davis supported her young family by working as an editor for what publication?
(a) The New York Times
(b) The Washington Journal
(c) The Philadelphia Inquirer
(d) The Boston Globe

3. 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 Potts’
(c) Miss Sarah’s
(d) Miss Andrews’

4. What Jacky’s last name in “The Wife’s Story”?
(a) Peterson
(b) Swarnoff
(c) Prichard
(d) Monchard

5. What word does the narrator use to refer to a nickname in “Life in the Iron Mills”?
(a) Sobriquet
(b) Mariner
(c) Handle
(d) Moniker

Short Answer Questions

1. What deformity is Deborah said to be afflicted with in “Life in the Iron Mills”?

2. What is Hugh’s charge for the theft of the money in “Life in the Iron Mills”?

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

4. The narrator describes Hugh Wolfe as a furnace-tender at one of whose rolling-mills in “Life in the Iron Mills”?

5. The mill-owner’s son tells his companions in “Life in the Iron Mills,” “If I had the making of men, these men who do the lowest part of the world’s work should be” what?

(see the answer key)

This section contains 282 words (approx. 1 page at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample