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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) Unspeakable loathing
(b) A shudder of grief
(c) Critical irony
(d) Unmistakable joy

2. What is the name of the judge that sentenced Hugh Wolfe in “Life in the Iron Mills”?
(a) Judge Williams
(b) Judge Day
(c) Judge Carter
(d) Judge Anderson

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

4. Mrs. Palmer discovers that a man named Mr. Corvill is on the train with her in “Anne.” Corvill is noted as the name of a famous what?
(a) Opera singer
(b) Author
(c) Figure-painter
(d) Politician

5. 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) Politics and corruption
(c) Secrecy and politeness
(d) School-learning

Short Answer Questions

1. The church that Hugh enters on the night he decides to keep the money is described by the narrator of “Life in the Iron Mills” as what?

2. Of whom does the narrator say Hugh had found “a Man all- knowing, all-seeing, crowned by Nature, reigning” in “Life in the Iron Mills”?

3. Who is the woman walking with George across the lawn as Anne drowses in the beginning of “Anne”?

4. On what date were L. Clarke Davis and Rebecca Harding Davis married?

5. What word from “Life in the Iron Mills” means slow, dull, or sluggish?

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