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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Bozo consider to be a free show?

2. Where is the cheapest lodgings in London?

3. What do the narrator and his acquaintance have to do before they receive food from the church?

4. How much money does the narrator have left the next morning?

5. How many men live at the lodgings ?

Short Essay Questions

1. What reason does the narrator give for the existence of tramps?

2. What shocks the narrator in chapter 35?

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

4. What does the narrator discover about England in chapter 25?

5. What stories does the narrator hear at the Cromley spike?

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

7. Why does the narrator use Croydon as an example of a good lodging house?

8. What does the narrator believe he has learned from his experiences?

9. How is Paddy different from Boris?

10. How do the tramps behave in the church in chapter 33?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Identify the main themes of the story. Why do you think these themes are so important to the story? How does Orwell use character and setting to express these themes?

Essay Topic 2

Why is the narrator is so nostalgic about going to London? How do the students think the narrator feels when proves his nostalgia was misplaced? Is this often the case with nostalgia?

Essay Topic 3

How does the narrator represent working class life? In what ways does the book display both the good and bad sides of working class life?

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