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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 many centuries ago does the narrator describe Christ rising up from the people in “Life in the Iron Mills”?
(a) 18
(b) 16
(c) 10
(d) 15

2. What kind of tobacco does the narrator describe the drunken Irishmen puffing on in the beginning of “Life in the Iron Mills”?
(a) Lucky Strike tobacco
(b) Williamsburg tobacco
(c) Skydancer tobacco
(d) Lynchburg tobacco

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”?
(a) Korl
(b) Tar
(c) Quartz
(d) Tarp

4. How many hands are employed at the iron mill where Hugh works in “Life in the Iron Mills”?
(a) 800
(b) 2,100
(c) 1,200
(d) 5,000

5. The narrator states in “Life in the Iron Mills,” “These great turning-days of life cast no shadow before, slip by unconsciously. Only a trifle, a little turn of the rudder, and the ship goes” where?
(a) To port or to sea
(b) To heaven or hell
(c) To the left or the right
(d) To the river

Short Answer Questions

1. The narrator in “Life in the Iron Mills” describes “man’s law” as that “which seizes on one” what?

2. From whom did Deborah presumably steal the money in “Life in the Iron Mills”?

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

4. What broken figure does the narrator describe as “pointing upward from the mantle shelf” in the beginning of “Life in the Iron Mills”?

5. Where does Deborah say Hugh was born in “Life in the Iron Mills”?

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