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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Life in the Iron Mills.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The mill where Hugh Wolfe works makes iron for what in “Life in the Iron Mills”?
(a) War weaponry
(b) Steam ships
(c) Railroads
(d) Skyscrapers

2. 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) The Apocalypse
(d) Dante’s Inferno

3. One of the men that visits the mill along with other men in “Life in the Iron Mills” is the son of which of the mill-owners?
(a) Mr. Peters
(b) Mr. Kirby
(c) Mr. Jones
(d) Mr. May

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?
(a) Embraced
(b) Tested
(c) Remembered
(d) Digested

5. The mill where Hugh works in “Life in the Iron Mills” is described as being by the river and how far below the city-limits?
(a) 10 miles
(b) 1 mile
(c) ½ mile
(d) 2 miles

Short Answer Questions

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

2. 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”?

3. How many years in jail is Deborah sentenced in “Life in the Iron Mills”?

4. At what time does Deborah return home from the cotton mill in the beginning of “Life in the Iron Mills”?

5. What is the mill-owner’s son’s reply in French when Dr. May asks him, “Have you many such hands as this? What are you going to do with them? Keep them at puddling iron?”

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