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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. 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) 6 months
(b) 6 weeks
(c) 2 weeks
(d) 1 month

2. The narrator describes Hugh Wolfe as a furnace-tender at one of whose rolling-mills in “Life in the Iron Mills”?
(a) Anderson and Smith’s
(b) Peter and Paul’s
(c) Maxwell and Thoreau’s
(d) Kirby and John’s

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

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. 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?”
(a) Laissez les bons temps roules
(b) Ce n’est pas les bons temps
(c) Laissez faire
(d) Ce n’est pas mon affaire

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. The church that Hugh enters on the night he decides to keep the money is described by the narrator of “Life in the Iron Mills” as what?

4. What is the name of the jailer in “Life in the Iron Mills”?

5. The character called Mitchell in “Life in the Iron Mills” is said to be an amateur what?

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