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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Life in the Iron Mills.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. Of the now shutting-down iron mill, Mitchell says in “Life in the Iron Mills,” “One could fancy these red smoldering lights to be the half-shut eyes of wild beasts, and the spectral figures their” what?
(a) Pitchforks
(b) Scaly wings
(c) Victims in the den
(d) Glistening teeth
2. What establishment does the narrator describe across the street when she looks out window in the beginning of “Life in the Iron Mills”?
(a) A funeral parlor
(b) A grocer’s shop
(c) A tavern
(d) A barbershop
3. 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) Ce n’est pas mon affaire
(b) Laissez les bons temps roules
(c) Laissez faire
(d) Ce n’est pas les bons temps
4. What word does the narrator use to describe Hugh Wolfe’s infancy in “Life in the Iron Mills”?
(a) Starved
(b) Joyful
(c) Plentiful
(d) Liberated
5. What is the name of the man that goes about town lighting the lamps at dusk in “Life in the Iron Mills”?
(a) Neff Sanders
(b) Mr. Clarke
(c) Mr. Mitchell
(d) Joe Hill
Short Answer Questions
1. The narrator describes Hugh Wolfe as a furnace-tender at one of whose rolling-mills in “Life in the Iron Mills”?
2. What kind of bird does the narrator describe chirping desolately beside her in a cage in the beginning of “Life in the Iron Mills”?
3. What does Deborah begin to eat for dinner after returning from the cotton mill in the beginning of “Life in the Iron Mills”?
4. Of the sculpture discovered by the visitors at the iron mill in “Life in the Iron Mills,” the narrator says, “There was not one line of beauty or grace in it: a nude woman’s form, muscular, grown coarse with labor, the powerful limbs instinct with some one poignant” what?
5. Who throws Deborah money as the visiting men at the mill depart in “Life in the Iron Mills”?
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