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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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?
(a) Taverns and brothels and wherever sick men live
(b) Grossness and crime, and hard, grinding labor
(c) Poverty and Godliness
(d) Art and beauty based on memories of his youth

2. The narrator describes the mill workers in the beginning of “Life in the Iron Mills” as “laired in by day in dens of drunkenness and” what?
(a) Rebellion
(b) Tyranny
(c) Infamy
(d) Misery

3. What establishment does the narrator describe across the street when she looks out window in the beginning of “Life in the Iron Mills”?
(a) A funeral parlor
(b) A tavern
(c) A grocer’s shop
(d) A barbershop

4. 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 Hugh’s pocket
(b) In the attic
(c) In her apron pocket
(d) In her jewelry box

5. When was Margret Howth published?
(a) 1861
(b) 1884
(c) 1914
(d) 1798

6. What sentence does Hugh Wolfe receive in “Life in the Iron Mills”?
(a) 19 years hard labor
(b) 2 years parole
(c) 5 years hard labor
(d) 3 years solitary confinement

7. What word does the narrator use in the beginning of “Life in the Iron Mills” to refer to a person who takes up an art, activity, or subject merely for amusement?
(a) Diva
(b) Dilettante
(c) Maestro
(d) Debutante

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

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

10. When was “Life in the Iron Mills” first published in a periodical?
(a) April, 1861
(b) September, 1900
(c) June, 1843
(d) July, 1912

11. What does Mitchell refer to as “the cure for all the world’s diseases” in “Life in the Iron Mills”?
(a) Beauty
(b) Justice
(c) Honor
(d) Money

12. What is the name of the publisher’s wife whom Rebecca Harding Davis became close friends with?
(a) Anne Elizabeth Browning
(b) Annie Adams Fields
(c) Mary Richardson
(d) Margaret Winchield

13. What is the name of the jailer in “Life in the Iron Mills”?
(a) Andrews
(b) Peters
(c) Haley
(d) Williams

14. 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 sparrow
(b) A parrot
(c) A canary
(d) A parakeet

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How long has Deborah stood at the spools at her job in the beginning of “Life in the Iron Mills”?

2. The narrator says in “Life in the Iron Mills,” “Man cannot live by” what?

3. 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”?

4. How does the narrator describe Hugh Wolfe’s face in “Life in the Iron Mills”?

5. The narrator in “Life in the Iron Mills” describes Hugh Wolfe’s father as being an immigrant from where?

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