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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 does the narrator describe the weather in the opening of “Life in the Iron Mills”?
(a) Cloudy
(b) Arid
(c) Sunny
(d) Windy

2. From whom did Deborah presumably steal the money in “Life in the Iron Mills”?
(a) Mr. Wolfe
(b) Mr. Mitchell
(c) Dr. May
(d) Mr. Kirby

3. What broken figure does the narrator describe as “pointing upward from the mantle shelf” in the beginning of “Life in the Iron Mills”?
(a) A goddess
(b) An angel
(c) A lion
(d) A tiger

4. What Latin phrase, translated as “Hungry and thirsty, his soul faints him” is used in “Life in the Iron Mills”?
(a) Semper fidelis
(b) Clamat au arian
(c) Scribet et libret
(d) De profundis clamavi

5. What is Hugh’s charge for the theft of the money in “Life in the Iron Mills”?
(a) Grand larceny
(b) Heresy
(c) Petty larceny
(d) Bearing false witness

Short Answer Questions

1. Whom does Deborah feel a pang of jealousy about as she lay on the ash heap at Hugh’s job in “Life in the Iron Mills”?

2. The narrator states in the beginning of “Life in the Iron Mills,” “The idiosyncrasy of this town is” what?

3. What is the name of the overseer that comes with the visiting men to the mill in “Life in the Iron Mills”?

4. 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?

5. Mitchell says of the laborers at the iron mill in “Life in the Iron Mills,” “Let them have a clear idea of the rights of the soul, and I’ll venture next week they’ll” what?

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