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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. 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?
(a) Nothing
(b) So little
(c) Only himself
(d) Only art

2. The woman who stays behind at the jail after Hugh’s suicide is described as a Quaker or what, “as they call themselves” in “Life in the Iron Mills”?
(a) Pointer
(b) Follower
(c) Believer
(d) Friend

3. The narrator in “Life in the Iron Mills” describes Hugh Wolfe as “no favorite in the mill; he had the taint of” what on him?
(a) Secrecy and politeness
(b) Politics and corruption
(c) School-learning
(d) Old money

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

5. What word does the narrator use to refer to a nickname in “Life in the Iron Mills”?
(a) Handle
(b) Mariner
(c) Sobriquet
(d) Moniker

Short Answer Questions

1. What word from “Life in the Iron Mills” means the state of being at rest, calm, or asleep?

2. One of the visiting men tells the owner’s son at the mill in “Life in the Iron Mills,” “If it were not that you must have heard it so often, I would tell you that your works looks like” what?

3. What word used in “Life in the Iron Mills” refers to a crystalline alkaloid used as a pesticide?

4. The narrator compares the “wild, eager face” of the sculpture in “Life in the Iron Mills” to what?

5. What sentence does Hugh Wolfe receive in “Life in the Iron Mills”?

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