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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 votes does the mill-owner’s son say his father brought to the polls for his candidate last November in “Life in the Iron Mills”?
(a) 500
(b) 300
(c) 700
(d) 250

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

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

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

5. The narrator states in the beginning of “Life in the Iron Mills,” “The idiosyncrasy of this town is” what?
(a) Sunshine
(b) Smoke
(c) Paint
(d) Cleanliness

Short Answer 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?

2. What is the name of the jailer in “Life in the Iron Mills”?

3. What is the name of the overseer that comes with the visiting men to the mill in “Life in the Iron Mills”?

4. By what nickname is Hugh Wolfe called in the mill in “Life in the Iron Mills”?

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

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