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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 hands are employed at the iron mill where Hugh works in “Life in the Iron Mills”?
(a) 800
(b) 2,100
(c) 5,000
(d) 1,200

2. What does Hugh use to commit suicide in jail in “Life in the Iron Mills”?
(a) A rope
(b) A bed sheet
(c) A piece of tin
(d) A police gun

3. The narrator in “Life in the Iron Mills” describes Hugh Wolfe as “A morbid, gloomy man, untaught, unled, left to feed his soul in” what?
(a) Grossness and crime, and hard, grinding labor
(b) Taverns and brothels and wherever sick men live
(c) Poverty and Godliness
(d) Art and beauty based on memories of his youth

4. What is the name of the man that goes about town lighting the lamps at dusk in “Life in the Iron Mills”?
(a) Mr. Clarke
(b) Neff Sanders
(c) Mr. Mitchell
(d) Joe Hill

5. 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?
(a) An epic cathedral
(b) A Gregorian haunt
(c) A medieval rapture
(d) A somber Gothic pile

Short Answer Questions

1. How is Deborah related to Hugh Wolfe in “Life in the Iron Mills”?

2. 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?

3. What does Deborah begin to eat for dinner after returning from the cotton mill in the beginning of “Life in the Iron Mills”?

4. 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?

5. What word does the narrator use to describe Hugh Wolfe’s infancy in “Life in the Iron Mills”?

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