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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does the narrator travel to London?
(a) By ship
(b) By car
(c) By bus
(d) By train

2. How is Paddy eventually killed?
(a) He is run over
(b) He jumps off a bridge
(c) He starves
(d) He is murdered

3. What illness is the doctor for signs of?
(a) Flu
(b) Cholera
(c) Consumption
(d) Smallpox

4. Why does Paddy want to bury his money?
(a) To avoid prison
(b) To see if it will grow
(c) To save it
(d) To stop it from getting stolen

5. Which of the following does the narrator say is one of England's virtues?
(a) The beaches
(b) Mint sauce
(c) Cricket
(d) The weather

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the narrator never expect a tramp to be when he gives them a penny?

2. What does Bozo do to earn money?

3. What does the narrator say uneducated men need to stay sane?

4. Name one of the slang words Orwell lists in this chapter.

5. What are the tramps embarrassed by in this chapter?

Short Essay Questions

1. What ideas does the narrator have to improve the tramp's lives?

2. What are the narrator's views on England as he travels there by boat?

3. What kind of people live in the lodging house?

4. How does Bozo win the narrator's admiration in chapter 33?

5. How is Paddy different from Boris?

6. How do the people in the lodging house earn their money?

7. What happens to Paddy and Bozo in the final chapter?

8. Describe the narrator's first night in London?

9. Describe the Salvation Army shelter.

10. What shocks the narrator in chapter 35?

(see the answer keys)

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