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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. One of the men that visits the mill along with other men in “Life in the Iron Mills” is the son of which of the mill-owners?
(a) Mr. Kirby
(b) Mr. Jones
(c) Mr. Peters
(d) Mr. May

2. What word does the narrator use to describe Hugh Wolfe’s infancy in “Life in the Iron Mills”?
(a) Plentiful
(b) Joyful
(c) Liberated
(d) Starved

3. What word used in “Life in the Iron Mills” refers to a crystalline alkaloid used as a pesticide?
(a) Iodine
(b) Aspartame
(c) Strychnine
(d) DDT

4. 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?
(a) Dilettante
(b) Diva
(c) Maestro
(d) Debutante

5. Where does the narrator say she keeps the korl statue in the end of “Life in the Iron Mills”?
(a) In a bank vault
(b) Behind a curtain
(c) On the front porch
(d) In a museum

Short Answer Questions

1. Mitchell claims in “Life in the Iron Mills,” “Reform is born of need, not” what?

2. When Hugh decides to keep the money in “Life in the Iron Mills,” he realizes of his watch at the mill, “He need not go, need never go again, thank God! – shaking off the thought with” what?

3. Janey tells Deborah that “the father” is in the stone house with whom in the beginning of “Life in the Iron Mills”?

4. Who throws Deborah money as the visiting men at the mill depart in “Life in the Iron Mills”?

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

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