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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What kind of bird does the narrator describe chirping desolately beside her in a cage in the beginning of “Life in the Iron Mills”?
(a) A parakeet
(b) A parrot
(c) A sparrow
(d) A canary

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

4. What Greek goddess of love and beauty does the narrator describe a sculpture of in “Life in the Iron Mills”?
(a) Athena
(b) Achilles
(c) Echo
(d) Aphrodite

5. Mitchell says of the laborers at the iron mill in “Life in the Iron Mills,” “Let them have a clear idea of the rights of the soul, and I’ll venture next week they’ll” what?
(a) Strike out to the sea
(b) Strike for higher wages
(c) Quit for a life of poetry
(d) Bludgeon you for your kindness

6. What broken figure does the narrator describe as “pointing upward from the mantle shelf” in the beginning of “Life in the Iron Mills”?
(a) A tiger
(b) A lion
(c) A goddess
(d) An angel

7. Where do Deborah’s coworkers tell her there a ball tonight in the beginning of “Life in the Iron Mills”?
(a) Miss Potts’
(b) Miss Boyle’s
(c) Miss Sarah’s
(d) Miss Andrews’

8. The narrator states in the beginning of “Life in the Iron Mills,” “The idiosyncrasy of this town is” what?
(a) Smoke
(b) Sunshine
(c) Cleanliness
(d) Paint

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

10. What is the name of the overseer that comes with the visiting men to the mill in “Life in the Iron Mills”?
(a) Mr. Wolfe
(b) Mr. Kirk
(c) Mr. Mitchell
(d) Mr. Clarke

11. What word from “Life in the Iron Mills” means the state of being at rest, calm, or asleep?
(a) Repose
(b) Interim
(c) Denouement
(d) Parlance

12. What is the name of the lawyer that the judge appoints to Hugh Wolfe in “Life in the Iron Mills”?
(a) Mr. Clarke
(b) Mr. Smith
(c) Mr. May
(d) Mr. Gibson

13. The narrator in the beginning of “Life in the Iron Mills” refers to the reader as “You, Egoist, or Pantheist, or” what?
(a) Argentine
(b) Arminian
(c) Polarized
(d) Leonine

14. What word used in “Life in the Iron Mills” refers to a crystalline alkaloid used as a pesticide?
(a) Strychnine
(b) DDT
(c) Iodine
(d) Aspartame

15. 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

Short Answer Questions

1. What nonprofit literary publisher published Life in the Iron Mills and Other Stories, including “A Biographical Interpretation”?

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

3. What deformity is Deborah said to be afflicted with in “Life in the Iron Mills”?

4. The narrator tells the reader in the beginning of “Life in the Iron Mills,” I will tell you plainly that I have a great hope; and I bring it to you to be” what?

5. What is the name of the man that goes about town lighting the lamps at dusk in “Life in the Iron Mills”?

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