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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 Biblical figure, the son of Isaac, does the narrator denote having been deprived of his birthright in “Life in the Iron Mills”?
(a) Esau
(b) Abel
(c) Peter
(d) Cain

2. 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?
(a) 1 mile
(b) 10 miles
(c) ½ mile
(d) 2 miles

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

4. Of the now shutting-down iron mill, Mitchell says in “Life in the Iron Mills,” “One could fancy these red smoldering lights to be the half-shut eyes of wild beasts, and the spectral figures their” what?
(a) Victims in the den
(b) Scaly wings
(c) Glistening teeth
(d) Pitchforks

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

Short Answer Questions

1. The narrator in “Life in the Iron Mills” describes Hugh Wolfe as “no favorite in the mill; he had the taint of” what on him?

2. The narrator tells the reader in the beginning of “Life in the Iron Mills,” I will tell you plainly that I have a great hope; and I bring it to you to be” what?

3. The narrator in the beginning of “Life in the Iron Mills” refers to the reader as “You, Egoist, or Pantheist, or” what?

4. What word used in “Life in the Iron Mills” refers to a side of cured pork?

5. What is the name of the judge that sentenced Hugh Wolfe in “Life in the Iron Mills”?

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