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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. The narrator states in the beginning of “Life in the Iron Mills,” “The idiosyncrasy of this town is” what?
(a) Smoke
(b) Paint
(c) Cleanliness
(d) Sunshine

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

3. How long has Deborah stood at the spools at her job in the beginning of “Life in the Iron Mills”?
(a) 8 hours
(b) 12 hours
(c) 10 hours
(d) 6 hours

4. 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) Art and beauty based on memories of his youth
(b) Grossness and crime, and hard, grinding labor
(c) Taverns and brothels and wherever sick men live
(d) Poverty and Godliness

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?
(a) Strike for higher wages
(b) Strike out to the sea
(c) Quit for a life of poetry
(d) Bludgeon you for your kindness

Short Answer Questions

1. At what time does Deborah return home from the cotton mill in the beginning of “Life in the Iron Mills”?

2. Who is the town physician who comes with the visiting men to the mill in “Life in the Iron Mills”?

3. The character called Mitchell in “Life in the Iron Mills” is said to be an amateur what?

4. The narrator in the beginning of “Life in the Iron Mills” refers to the reader as “You, Egoist, or Pantheist, or” what?

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?

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