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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Wife's Story.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The narrator says in “Life in the Iron Mills,” “Man cannot live by” what?
(a) Money alone
(b) Love alone
(c) Philosophy alone
(d) Work alone

2. What deformity is Deborah said to be afflicted with in “Life in the Iron Mills”?
(a) She is blind
(b) She is hunchbacked
(c) She is an amputee
(d) She is deaf

3. The character called Mitchell in “Life in the Iron Mills” is said to be an amateur what?
(a) Comedian
(b) Gymnast
(c) Hypnotist
(d) Opera singer

4. The narrator in “The Wife’s Story” says she grew up in what state?
(a) Vermont
(b) Idaho
(c) Massachusetts
(d) New Hampshire

5. Deborah tells Hugh when she brings him food at work that she fears the ale is a bit what, in “Life in the Iron Mills”?
(a) Moldy
(b) Sour
(c) Bitter
(d) Sweet

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Hugh’s charge for the theft of the money in “Life in the Iron Mills”?

2. How does the narrator describe Janey’s eyes in “Life in the Iron Mills”?

3. 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?

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

5. 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?

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