1. By what nickname is Hugh Wolfe called in the mill in “Life in the Iron Mills”?
(a) Molly Wolfe
(b) Grandma
(c) Big Bad Wolfe
(d) Old Wolfe

2. Doctor May reads Hugh’s sentence to his wife from the newspaper how long after the night when they discussed the sculpture in “Life in the Iron Mills”?
(a) 2 weeks
(b) 6 weeks
(c) 6 months
(d) 1 month

3. 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) Maestro
(b) Diva
(c) Debutante
(d) Dilettante

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

5. Where does Deborah say Hugh was born in “Life in the Iron Mills”?
(a) The lane moor
(b) The Derbyshire
(c) The flat prairie
(d) The mountain crags

Short Answer Questions

1. Of the now shutting-down iron mill, Mitchell says in “Life in the Iron Mills,” “One could fancy these red smoldering lights to be the half-shut eyes of wild beasts, and the spectral figures their” what?

2. What does Hugh use to commit suicide in jail in “Life in the Iron Mills”?

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

4. What word does the narrator use to describe Hugh Wolfe’s infancy in “Life in the Iron Mills”?

5. What Biblical figure, the son of Isaac, does the narrator denote having been deprived of his birthright in “Life in the Iron Mills”?

(see the answer key)

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