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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. At what time does Deborah return home from the cotton mill in the beginning of “Life in the Iron Mills”?
(a) 3:00
(b) 10:00
(c) 1:00
(d) 11:00

2. What feeder at the mill does Hugh look down on at the marketplace from his cell in “Life in the Iron Mills”?
(a) Mr. Clarke
(b) Mr. Peters
(c) Pete Small
(d) Neff Sanders

3. What deformity is Deborah said to be afflicted with in “Life in the Iron Mills”?
(a) She is hunchbacked
(b) She is an amputee
(c) She is deaf
(d) She is blind

4. By what name does the narrator call the “refuse from the ore after the pig-metal is run” in “Life in the Iron Mills”?
(a) Tar
(b) Tarp
(c) Korl
(d) Quartz

5. What word from “Life in the Iron Mills” means the state of being at rest, calm, or asleep?
(a) Repose
(b) Denouement
(c) Parlance
(d) Interim

Short Answer Questions

1. What word from “Life in the Iron Mills” means slow, dull, or sluggish?

2. What establishment does the narrator describe across the street when she looks out window in the beginning of “Life in the Iron Mills”?

3. 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”?

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

5. The mill-owner’s son tells his companions in “Life in the Iron Mills,” “If I had the making of men, these men who do the lowest part of the world’s work should be” what?

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