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

2. By what name does the narrator call the “refuse from the ore after the pig-metal is run” in “Life in the Iron Mills”?
(a) Quartz
(b) Tar
(c) Tarp
(d) Korl

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

4. What night of the week is it that Deborah brings Hugh his dinner at the mill in the beginning of “Life in the Iron Mills”?
(a) Saturday
(b) Sunday
(c) Tuesday
(d) Monday

5. 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) 4 years
(b) 30 years
(c) 10 years
(d) 20 years

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. Of whom does the narrator say Hugh had found “a Man all- knowing, all-seeing, crowned by Nature, reigning” in “Life in the Iron Mills”?

3. Where does Deborah hide the money she’s stolen when Hugh falls asleep after they’ve arrived home from the mill in “Life in the Iron Mills”?

4. How does the narrator describe the weather in the opening of “Life in the Iron Mills”?

5. The narrator says in “Life in the Iron Mills,” “Man cannot live by” what?

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