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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) 2-3
(b) 5-6
(c) 8-9
(d) 10-11

2. The narrator in “Life in the Iron Mills” describes Hugh Wolfe as “no favorite in the mill; he had the taint of” what on him?
(a) School-learning
(b) Secrecy and politeness
(c) Politics and corruption
(d) Old money

3. What Greek goddess of love and beauty does the narrator describe a sculpture of in “Life in the Iron Mills”?
(a) Athena
(b) Achilles
(c) Aphrodite
(d) Echo

4. What action is referenced in “Life in the Iron Mills” as “the peculiar action of a man dying of thirst”?
(a) Slinking
(b) Clinging
(c) Pursing
(d) Clutching

5. How does the narrator describe Hugh Wolfe’s face in “Life in the Iron Mills”?
(a) A sly and jovial young man’s face
(b) A round and glowing face
(c) A meek, woman’s face
(d) A haggard face with slyness like a snake

Short Answer 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?

2. Mitchell claims in “Life in the Iron Mills,” “Reform is born of need, not” what?

3. What is the name of the narrator’s husband’s youngest son in “The Wife’s Story”?

4. 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?”

5. A few weeks prior to when the narrator and her husband moved in “The Wife’s Story,” she describes a cool morning in what month?

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