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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through A Biographical Interpretation.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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) Old money
(b) Secrecy and politeness
(c) Politics and corruption
(d) School-learning

2. Where does Deborah hide the money she’s stolen when Hugh falls asleep after they’ve arrived home from the mill in “Life in the Iron Mills”?
(a) In her apron pocket
(b) In Hugh’s pocket
(c) In her jewelry box
(d) In the attic

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 Apocalypse
(c) The River Styx
(d) The fires of the underworld

4. What action is referenced in “Life in the Iron Mills” as “the peculiar action of a man dying of thirst”?
(a) Slinking
(b) Clutching
(c) Pursing
(d) Clinging

5. How many men are in the group of visitors that come through the mill where Hugh works in “Life in the Iron Mills”?
(a) 10-11
(b) 5-6
(c) 8-9
(d) 2-3

Short Answer Questions

1. Christ is described in “Life in the Iron Mills” as having stood “with the fishermen and harlots by the sea of” what?

2. The narrator says in “Life in the Iron Mills,” “About this man Mitchell hung the impalpable atmosphere belonging to the” what?

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

4. Of Deborah’s thoughts on Hugh in “Life in the Iron Mills,” the narrator says, “She knew, that, down under all the vileness and coarseness of his life, there was a groping passion for whatever was” what?

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

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