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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 word from “Life in the Iron Mills” means slow, dull, or sluggish?
(a) Torpid
(b) Trepid
(c) Tainted
(d) Torrid

2. What is the name of the jailer in “Life in the Iron Mills”?
(a) Peters
(b) Andrews
(c) Haley
(d) Williams

3. 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 mon affaire
(b) Laissez les bons temps roules
(c) Ce n’est pas les bons temps
(d) Laissez faire

4. What sentence does Hugh Wolfe receive in “Life in the Iron Mills”?
(a) 2 years parole
(b) 3 years solitary confinement
(c) 19 years hard labor
(d) 5 years hard labor

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

Short Answer 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”?

2. What broken figure does the narrator describe as “pointing upward from the mantle shelf” in the beginning of “Life in the Iron Mills”?

3. How many years in jail is Deborah sentenced in “Life in the Iron Mills”?

4. One of the visiting men tells the owner’s son at the mill in “Life in the Iron Mills,” “If it were not that you must have heard it so often, I would tell you that your works looks like” what?

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

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