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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 is the name of the overseer that comes with the visiting men to the mill in “Life in the Iron Mills”?
(a) Mr. Mitchell
(b) Mr. Kirk
(c) Mr. Clarke
(d) Mr. Wolfe

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) 20 years
(b) 4 years
(c) 30 years
(d) 10 years

3. How many centuries ago does the narrator describe Christ rising up from the people in “Life in the Iron Mills”?
(a) 16
(b) 18
(c) 15
(d) 10

4. 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. May
(b) Mr. Jones
(c) Mr. Kirby
(d) Mr. Peters

5. What is the mill-owner’s son’s reply in French when Dr. May asks him, “Have you many such hands as this? What are you going to do with them? Keep them at puddling iron?”
(a) Ce n’est pas les bons temps
(b) Ce n’est pas mon affaire
(c) Laissez les bons temps roules
(d) Laissez faire

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 woman who stays behind at the jail after Hugh’s suicide is described as a Quaker or what, “as they call themselves” in “Life in the Iron Mills”?

3. How does the narrator describe Hugh Wolfe’s face 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 mill-owner’s son tells his companions in “Life in the Iron Mills,” “If I had the making of men, these men who do the lowest part of the world’s work should be” what?

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