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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Anne.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When Hugh decides to keep the money in “Life in the Iron Mills,” he realizes of his watch at the mill, “He need not go, need never go again, thank God! – shaking off the thought with” what?
(a) Unmistakable joy
(b) Unspeakable loathing
(c) Critical irony
(d) A shudder of grief

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

3. What does Deborah begin to eat for dinner after returning from the cotton mill in the beginning of “Life in the Iron Mills”?
(a) Boiled cabbage
(b) Pork sausage
(c) Haggis and rice
(d) Boiled potatoes

4. Hugh’s legs are describes as being ironed because he made how many attempts at escape from jail in “Life in the Iron Mills”?
(a) 4
(b) 5
(c) 8
(d) 2

5. Whom does Deborah feel a pang of jealousy about as she lay on the ash heap at Hugh’s job in “Life in the Iron Mills”?
(a) Janey
(b) Mr. Mitchell
(c) Sarah
(d) Old Wolfe

Short Answer Questions

1. The narrator in “Life in the Iron Mills” describes “man’s law” as that “which seizes on one” what?

2. When was Waiting for the Verdict published?

3. By what pet name does the narrator recall her husband fondly calling her when they first married in “The Wife’s Story”?

4. What is the name of the lawyer that the judge appoints to Hugh Wolfe in “Life in the Iron Mills”?

5. Who was the publisher that accepted “Life in the Iron Mills” immediately and began a long friendship with Rebecca Harding Davis?

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