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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. What Biblical figure, the son of Isaac, does the narrator denote having been deprived of his birthright in “Life in the Iron Mills”?
(a) Peter
(b) Abel
(c) Cain
(d) Esau

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

3. How many centuries ago does the narrator describe Christ rising up from the people in “Life in the Iron Mills”?
(a) 18
(b) 10
(c) 16
(d) 15

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?”
(a) Laissez faire
(b) Ce n’est pas mon affaire
(c) Ce n’est pas les bons temps
(d) Laissez les bons temps roules

5. What is the name of the judge that sentenced Hugh Wolfe in “Life in the Iron Mills”?
(a) Judge Day
(b) Judge Carter
(c) Judge Williams
(d) Judge Anderson

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How many men are in the group of visitors that come through the mill where Hugh works in “Life in the Iron Mills”?

3. Where was Rebecca Harding Davis born?

4. Where does Deborah hide the money she’s stolen when Hugh falls asleep after they’ve arrived home from the mill in “Life in the Iron Mills”?

5. How does the narrator describe Hugh Wolfe’s face in “Life in the Iron Mills”?

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