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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 narrator in the beginning of “Life in the Iron Mills” refers to the reader as “You, Egoist, or Pantheist, or” what?
(a) Polarized
(b) Argentine
(c) Arminian
(d) Leonine

2. 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?
(a) Scaly wings
(b) Victims in the den
(c) Pitchforks
(d) Glistening teeth

3. What broken figure does the narrator describe as “pointing upward from the mantle shelf” in the beginning of “Life in the Iron Mills”?
(a) A tiger
(b) An angel
(c) A lion
(d) A goddess

4. 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) ½ mile
(b) 1 mile
(c) 10 miles
(d) 2 miles

5. How many men are in the group of visitors that come through the mill where Hugh works in “Life in the Iron Mills”?
(a) 2-3
(b) 5-6
(c) 8-9
(d) 10-11

Short Answer Questions

1. Christ is described in “Life in the Iron Mills” as having stood “with the fishermen and harlots by the sea of” what?

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

3. Whom does Deborah feel a pang of jealousy about as she lay on the ash heap at Hugh’s job in “Life in the Iron Mills”?

4. The narrator compares the “wild, eager face” of the sculpture in “Life in the Iron Mills” to what?

5. 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?

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