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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. What word does the narrator use to refer to a nickname in “Life in the Iron Mills”?
(a) Moniker
(b) Mariner
(c) Handle
(d) Sobriquet

2. Where does Deborah go to live after serving her jail sentence in “Life in the Iron Mills”?
(a) With the Quakers
(b) With Janey and her husband
(c) With her mother
(d) With Old Wolfe

3. What word from “Life in the Iron Mills” means slow, dull, or sluggish?
(a) Tainted
(b) Torpid
(c) Trepid
(d) Torrid

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

5. How does the narrator describe Janey’s eyes in “Life in the Iron Mills”?
(a) Mexican
(b) Milesian
(c) Spanish
(d) Armenian

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

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

3. The character called Mitchell in “Life in the Iron Mills” is said to be an amateur what?

4. Of Hugh Wolfe, the narrator says in “Life in the Iron Mills,” “His soul within him was smothering to death; he wanted so much, thought so much, and knew” what?

5. 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?”

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