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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. The narrator compares the “wild, eager face” of the sculpture in “Life in the Iron Mills” to what?
(a) A starving wolf’s
(b) An enraged goddess’s
(c) A hungry child’s
(d) A seductive snake’s

2. Where does Deborah go to live after serving her jail sentence in “Life in the Iron Mills”?
(a) With Janey and her husband
(b) With the Quakers
(c) With her mother
(d) With Old Wolfe

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

4. 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”?
(a) Jim Arndt
(b) Denver Wilson
(c) James Matthews
(d) Peter Orwell

5. Mitchell claims in “Life in the Iron Mills,” “Reform is born of need, not” what?
(a) Poverty
(b) Criticism
(c) Empathy
(d) Pity

Short Answer Questions

1. The narrator describes “Jacky’s rough voice” as being like what in “The Wife’s Story”?

2. The narrator tells the reader in the beginning of “Life in the Iron Mills,” I will tell you plainly that I have a great hope; and I bring it to you to be” what?

3. How long has Deborah stood at the spools at her job in the beginning of “Life in the Iron Mills”?

4. By what nickname is Hugh Wolfe called in the mill in “Life in the Iron Mills”?

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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