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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 does the narrator describe the weather in the opening of “Life in the Iron Mills”?
(a) Cloudy
(b) Arid
(c) Sunny
(d) Windy

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

3. The narrator says in “Life in the Iron Mills,” “Man cannot live by” what?
(a) Money alone
(b) Philosophy alone
(c) Love alone
(d) Work alone

4. By what nickname is Hugh Wolfe called in the mill in “Life in the Iron Mills”?
(a) Old Wolfe
(b) Grandma
(c) Molly Wolfe
(d) Big Bad Wolfe

5. The author of “A Biographical Interpretation” states that Rebecca Harding Davis grew up along what river?
(a) The Colorado River
(b) The Hudson River
(c) The Columbus River
(d) The Ohio River

Short Answer Questions

1. Mitchell says of the laborers at the iron mill in “Life in the Iron Mills,” “Let them have a clear idea of the rights of the soul, and I’ll venture next week they’ll” what?

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

3. Who does the narrator’s husband say used to trot Jacky “on his knee on the school-house steps” when she was a baby in “The Wife’s Story”?

4. By what name does the narrator call the “refuse from the ore after the pig-metal is run” in “Life in the Iron Mills”?

5. The narrator states in the beginning of “Life in the Iron Mills,” “The idiosyncrasy of this town is” what?

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