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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 Biblical figure, the son of Isaac, does the narrator denote having been deprived of his birthright in “Life in the Iron Mills”?
(a) Abel
(b) Peter
(c) Cain
(d) Esau

2. The narrator says in “Life in the Iron Mills,” “About this man Mitchell hung the impalpable atmosphere belonging to the” what?
(a) Thoroughbred gentleman
(b) Royal classes
(c) Undercover policeman
(d) Lowest class

3. What word does the narrator use in the beginning of “Life in the Iron Mills” to refer to a person who takes up an art, activity, or subject merely for amusement?
(a) Dilettante
(b) Debutante
(c) Maestro
(d) Diva

4. What is the name of the lawyer that the judge appoints to Hugh Wolfe in “Life in the Iron Mills”?
(a) Mr. Gibson
(b) Mr. Clarke
(c) Mr. May
(d) Mr. Smith

5. What word from “Life in the Iron Mills” means the state of being at rest, calm, or asleep?
(a) Parlance
(b) Denouement
(c) Interim
(d) Repose

Short Answer Questions

1. By what name does the narrator call the “refuse from the ore after the pig-metal is run” in “Life in the Iron Mills”?

2. What is the name of the jailer in “Life in the Iron Mills”?

3. Of Hugh Wolfe, the narrator says in “Life in the Iron Mills,” “His soul within him was smothering to death; he wanted so much, thought so much, and knew” what?

4. Christ is described in “Life in the Iron Mills” as having stood “with the fishermen and harlots by the sea of” what?

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?”

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