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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. How is Deborah related to Hugh Wolfe in “Life in the Iron Mills”?
(a) She’s his aunt
(b) She’s his sister
(c) She’s his cousin
(d) She’s his daughter

2. How does the narrator describe the weather in the opening of “Life in the Iron Mills”?
(a) Cloudy
(b) Sunny
(c) Windy
(d) Arid

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

4. 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 grocer’s shop
(b) A tavern
(c) A barbershop
(d) A funeral parlor

5. What word from “Life in the Iron Mills” means the state of being at rest, calm, or asleep?
(a) Interim
(b) Denouement
(c) Parlance
(d) Repose

Short Answer Questions

1. The narrator says in “Life in the Iron Mills,” “Man cannot live by” what?

2. Mitchell says of the laborers at the iron mill in “Life in the Iron Mills,” “Let them have a clear idea of the rights of the soul, and I’ll venture next week they’ll” what?

3. What sentence does Hugh Wolfe receive in “Life in the Iron Mills”?

4. 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?

5. The narrator says in “Life in the Iron Mills,” “About this man Mitchell hung the impalpable atmosphere belonging to the” what?

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