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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 is Deborah related to Hugh Wolfe in “Life in the Iron Mills”?
(a) She’s his daughter
(b) She’s his cousin
(c) She’s his aunt
(d) She’s his sister

2. The narrator states in “Life in the Iron Mills,” “These great turning-days of life cast no shadow before, slip by unconsciously. Only a trifle, a little turn of the rudder, and the ship goes” where?
(a) To the left or the right
(b) To port or to sea
(c) To the river
(d) To heaven or hell

3. 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?
(a) Dante’s Inferno
(b) The fires of the underworld
(c) The Apocalypse
(d) The River Styx

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

5. How many votes does the mill-owner’s son say his father brought to the polls for his candidate last November in “Life in the Iron Mills”?
(a) 700
(b) 250
(c) 300
(d) 500

Short Answer Questions

1. One of the men that visits the mill along with other men in “Life in the Iron Mills” is the son of which of the mill-owners?

2. How many years in jail is Deborah sentenced in “Life in the Iron Mills”?

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

4. 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?

5. Of the now shutting-down iron mill, Mitchell says in “Life in the Iron Mills,” “One could fancy these red smoldering lights to be the half-shut eyes of wild beasts, and the spectral figures their” what?

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