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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. The character called Mitchell in “Life in the Iron Mills” is said to be an amateur what?
(a) Gymnast
(b) Opera singer
(c) Hypnotist
(d) Comedian

2. What broken figure does the narrator describe as “pointing upward from the mantle shelf” in the beginning of “Life in the Iron Mills”?
(a) A lion
(b) An angel
(c) A tiger
(d) A goddess

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

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”?
(a) In her apron pocket
(b) In the attic
(c) In Hugh’s pocket
(d) In her jewelry box

5. 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?
(a) Rats that swarmed the cellar
(b) Dog that bit him
(c) Police that hold him down
(d) Beggars in the streets

Short Answer Questions

1. Whom does Deborah feel a pang of jealousy about as she lay on the ash heap at Hugh’s job in “Life in the Iron Mills”?

2. 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?

3. What word used in “Life in the Iron Mills” refers to a side of cured pork?

4. The narrator describes Hugh Wolfe as a furnace-tender at one of whose rolling-mills in “Life in the Iron Mills”?

5. 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?

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