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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through A Biographical Interpretation.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Of whom does the narrator say Hugh had found “a Man all- knowing, all-seeing, crowned by Nature, reigning” in “Life in the Iron Mills”?
(a) Mr. Clarke
(b) Mr. Mitchell
(c) Mr. Wolfe
(d) Mr. Kirby

2. The narrator in “Life in the Iron Mills” describes “man’s law” as that “which seizes on one” what?
(a) Motive
(b) Direct clue
(c) Isolated fact
(d) Person’s story

3. What Biblical figure, the son of Isaac, does the narrator denote having been deprived of his birthright in “Life in the Iron Mills”?
(a) Peter
(b) Esau
(c) Abel
(d) Cain

4. The narrator in “Life in the Iron Mills” describes Hugh Wolfe as “no favorite in the mill; he had the taint of” what on him?
(a) Old money
(b) School-learning
(c) Politics and corruption
(d) Secrecy and politeness

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How does the narrator describe Hugh Wolfe’s face in “Life in the Iron Mills”?

2. How is Deborah related to Hugh Wolfe in “Life in the Iron Mills”?

3. What word from “Life in the Iron Mills” means the state of being at rest, calm, or asleep?

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”?

5. How long has Deborah stood at the spools at her job in the beginning of “Life in the Iron Mills”?

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