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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 long has Deborah stood at the spools at her job in the beginning of “Life in the Iron Mills”?
(a) 10 hours
(b) 6 hours
(c) 12 hours
(d) 8 hours

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

3. Dr. May says in “Life in the Iron Mills,” “That is true philosophy. Drift with the stream, because you cannot” what?
(a) Answer for the current
(b) Face the harshness of the deep
(c) Swim against the current
(d) Dive deep enough to find bottom

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

5. Deborah tells Hugh when she brings him food at work that she fears the ale is a bit what, in “Life in the Iron Mills”?
(a) Bitter
(b) Sour
(c) Moldy
(d) Sweet

Short Answer Questions

1. What word does the narrator use to describe Hugh Wolfe’s infancy in “Life in the Iron Mills”?

2. How many men are in the group of visitors that come through the mill where Hugh works in “Life in the Iron Mills”?

3. What word used in “Life in the Iron Mills” refers to a crystalline alkaloid used as a pesticide?

4. What feeder at the mill does Hugh look down on at the marketplace from his cell in “Life in the Iron Mills”?

5. What word does the narrator use in the beginning of “Life in the Iron Mills” to refer to a person who takes up an art, activity, or subject merely for amusement?

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