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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Anne.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What word from “Life in the Iron Mills” means given or characterized by joking?
(a) Jocose
(b) Ephemeral
(c) Extrapolated
(d) Implicit

2. One of the visiting men tells the owner’s son at the mill in “Life in the Iron Mills,” “If it were not that you must have heard it so often, I would tell you that your works looks like” what?
(a) The Apocalypse
(b) Dante’s Inferno
(c) The River Styx
(d) The fires of the underworld

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

4. The mill where Hugh works in “Life in the Iron Mills” is described as being by the river and how far below the city-limits?
(a) 1 mile
(b) 2 miles
(c) ½ mile
(d) 10 miles

5. What word does the narrator use in the beginning of “Life in the Iron Mills” to refer to a person who takes up an art, activity, or subject merely for amusement?
(a) Dilettante
(b) Maestro
(c) Diva
(d) Debutante

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Deborah go to live after serving her jail sentence in “Life in the Iron Mills”?

2. Rebecca Harding Davis was the eldest of how many children in her family?

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

4. When was Margret Howth published?

5. Waiting for the Verdict is a novel about what?

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