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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through A Biographical Interpretation.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is the town physician who comes with the visiting men to the mill in “Life in the Iron Mills”?
(a) Dr. Wolfe
(b) Dr. Clarke
(c) Dr. Mitchell
(d) Dr. May

2. The narrator in “Life in the Iron Mills” says that it is nearly how long since the Wolfes lived in the boarding house in the beginning of the story?
(a) 30 years
(b) 4 years
(c) 20 years
(d) 10 years

3. What is the name of the lawyer that the judge appoints to Hugh Wolfe in “Life in the Iron Mills”?
(a) Mr. May
(b) Mr. Clarke
(c) Mr. Gibson
(d) Mr. Smith

4. Deborah tells Hugh when she brings him food at work that she fears the ale is a bit what, in “Life in the Iron Mills”?
(a) Bitter
(b) Moldy
(c) Sour
(d) Sweet

5. What Latin phrase, translated as “Hungry and thirsty, his soul faints him” is used in “Life in the Iron Mills”?
(a) Semper fidelis
(b) Scribet et libret
(c) Clamat au arian
(d) De profundis clamavi

Short Answer Questions

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

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?

3. 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?

4. What word used in “Life in the Iron Mills” refers to a crystalline alkaloid used as a pesticide?

5. Dr. May says in “Life in the Iron Mills,” “That is true philosophy. Drift with the stream, because you cannot” what?

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