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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 in “Life in the Iron Mills” describes Hugh Wolfe’s father as being an immigrant from where?
(a) Scotland
(b) Germany
(c) Wales
(d) Ireland

2. 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. Clarke
(c) Mr. Kirk
(d) Mr. Mitchell

3. How many votes does the mill-owner’s son say his father brought to the polls for his candidate last November in “Life in the Iron Mills”?
(a) 300
(b) 500
(c) 250
(d) 700

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

5. What word from “Life in the Iron Mills” means slow, dull, or sluggish?
(a) Tainted
(b) Trepid
(c) Torpid
(d) Torrid

Short Answer Questions

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

2. 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?

3. The narrator describes Hugh Wolfe as a furnace-tender at one of whose rolling-mills in “Life in the Iron Mills”?

4. Where do Deborah’s coworkers tell her there a ball tonight in the beginning of “Life in the Iron Mills”?

5. How many children did Rebecca Harding Davis have?

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