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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 5.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How did Orwell describe the meals at the Brooker's house?
(a) "Uniformly pitiful."
(b) "Pitifully disgusting."
(c) "Abjectly woeful."
(d) "Uniformly disgusting."

2. What is the first thing a miner does when he comes up from the mine?
(a) Goes home to bathe.
(b) Drinks large quantities of water.
(c) Strips off his shirt and wipes his face.
(d) Gargles water to get the coal dust out of his nose and mouth.

3. Who were the fillers?
(a) The men shoveling coal onto the conveyer belt.
(b) The men moving coal on the elevators.
(c) The men digging coal from the ground.
(d) The foremen.

4. What is one superstition miner sometimes hold to?
(a) It is bad luck to wear red into the mines.
(b) It is bad luck to kiss a woman goodbye before going into the mines.
(c) It is bad luck to carry a photograph of one's children into the mines.
(d) It is bad luck to see a woman before going to work in the morning shift.

5. Why did Orwell believe the return trip through the tunnels was worse than the initial one?
(a) Because he was forced to move very quickly.
(b) Because he was terribly hungry.
(c) Because he was alone in the dark.
(d) Because he was going slightly uphill on the return.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why did men chew tobacco in the mines?

2. Who was Mr. Reilly?

3. How did D. H. Lawrence come to Orwell's mind as he rode the train?

4. What did each of the permanent lodgers get for their ten shillings a week rent?

5. Who did Orwell believe was doing the best work for the unemployed in the thirties?

(see the answer key)

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