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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. 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?
(a) Critical irony
(b) A shudder of grief
(c) Unspeakable loathing
(d) Unmistakable joy

2. The narrator in “Life in the Iron Mills” says that it is nearly how long since the Wolfes lived in the boarding house in the beginning of the story?
(a) 30 years
(b) 4 years
(c) 10 years
(d) 20 years

3. What word used in “Life in the Iron Mills” refers to a side of cured pork?
(a) Bandy
(b) Curry
(c) Haggis
(d) Flitch

4. By what nickname is Hugh Wolfe called in the mill in “Life in the Iron Mills”?
(a) Molly Wolfe
(b) Big Bad Wolfe
(c) Grandma
(d) Old Wolfe

5. What deformity is Deborah said to be afflicted with in “Life in the Iron Mills”?
(a) She is hunchbacked
(b) She is an amputee
(c) She is deaf
(d) She is blind

Short Answer Questions

1. What word does the narrator use to refer to a nickname in “Life in the Iron Mills”?

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

3. Doctor May reads Hugh’s sentence to his wife from the newspaper how long after the night when they discussed the sculpture in “Life in the Iron Mills”?

4. The church that Hugh enters on the night he decides to keep the money is described by the narrator of “Life in the Iron Mills” as what?

5. 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?

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