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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 word from “Life in the Iron Mills” means slow, dull, or sluggish?
(a) Torpid
(b) Torrid
(c) Trepid
(d) Tainted

2. How many centuries ago does the narrator describe Christ rising up from the people in “Life in the Iron Mills”?
(a) 15
(b) 10
(c) 18
(d) 16

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

4. What kind of tobacco does the narrator describe the drunken Irishmen puffing on in the beginning of “Life in the Iron Mills”?
(a) Lucky Strike tobacco
(b) Lynchburg tobacco
(c) Skydancer tobacco
(d) Williamsburg tobacco

5. What word from “Life in the Iron Mills” means given or characterized by joking?
(a) Implicit
(b) Extrapolated
(c) Jocose
(d) Ephemeral

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Hugh use to commit suicide in jail in “Life in the Iron Mills”?

3. What is the name of the judge that sentenced Hugh Wolfe in “Life in the Iron Mills”?

4. What is the name of the man that goes about town lighting the lamps at dusk in “Life in the Iron Mills”?

5. Hugh’s legs are describes as being ironed because he made how many attempts at escape from jail in “Life in the Iron Mills”?

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