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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. Where does Deborah say Hugh was born in “Life in the Iron Mills”?
(a) The Derbyshire
(b) The flat prairie
(c) The lane moor
(d) The mountain crags

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?
(a) Strike out to the sea
(b) Strike for higher wages
(c) Bludgeon you for your kindness
(d) Quit for a life of poetry

3. How does the narrator describe Hugh Wolfe’s face in “Life in the Iron Mills”?
(a) A sly and jovial young man’s face
(b) A meek, woman’s face
(c) A haggard face with slyness like a snake
(d) A round and glowing face

4. 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 the river
(c) To heaven or hell
(d) To the left or the right

5. Janey tells Deborah that “the father” is in the stone house with whom in the beginning of “Life in the Iron Mills”?
(a) Henderson
(b) Paul
(c) Haley
(d) Peters

Short Answer Questions

1. At what time does Deborah return home from the cotton mill in the beginning of “Life in the Iron Mills”?

2. The narrator describes Hugh Wolfe as a furnace-tender at one of whose rolling-mills in “Life in the Iron Mills”?

3. What Greek goddess of love and beauty does the narrator describe a sculpture of in “Life in the Iron Mills”?

4. What word from “Life in the Iron Mills” means the state of being at rest, calm, or asleep?

5. The narrator compares the “wild, eager face” of the sculpture in “Life in the Iron Mills” to what?

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