The Road to Wigan Pier Test | Mid-Book Test - Easy

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The Road to Wigan Pier Test | Mid-Book Test - Easy

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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is a "dataller?"
(a) A miner who plants explosives.
(b) A miner who attends to the roof of the mine.
(c) The superviser in the mine shaft.
(d) A miner who digs the coal.

2. What was the most understandable cause of accidents in a mine?
(a) Cancer.
(b) Exhaustion.
(c) Collapsing roofs.
(d) Gas explosions.

3. For what did the Brookers purchase insurance policies?
(a) They insured their children.
(b) They insured each other.
(c) They insured the lives of both old age pensioners.
(d) They insured their home and shop.

4. In what position must the fillers work?
(a) Slouching over.
(b) Sitting.
(c) Standing up.
(d) On their knees.

5. Upon what did Orwell believe our civilization is based?
(a) Law.
(b) Marriage.
(c) Coal.
(d) Money.

6. How did the Brookers view the two old age pensioners that lived in their house?
(a) They thought of them as two old, quiet men bothering no one.
(b) They did not think of them at all as long as they paid their rent.
(c) They thought of them as dreadful parasites living on their charity.
(d) They thought of them as a danger because they smoked in bed.

7. What is nystagmus?
(a) A heart disease.
(b) A nose disease.
(c) An eye disease.
(d) A lung disease.

8. What author accused miners of gluttony?
(a) Rev. B.W. Smith.
(b) Rev. W.D. Acres.
(c) Rev. W. R. Inge.
(d) Rev. W. S. Bellows.

9. What is the cause of the great majority of accidents in the mine?
(a) Gob fires.
(b) Fall of a roof.
(c) Human error.
(d) Gas explosions.

10. Who were the only permanent lodgers at the Brookers?
(a) Mr. Reilly and Mr. Simons.
(b) Mr. Reilly and a man named Joe.
(c) Mr. Reilly and the Irish miner with one hand.
(d) Mr. Reilly and Mr. Orwell.

11. What is a "gob fire?"
(a) A coal fire.
(b) A spontaneous heat problem.
(c) A cigarette fire.
(d) A spontaneously generating fire.

12. How long were the fillers on the job during their shifts?
(a) Six hours with no benefits.
(b) Eight hours with half an hour for lunch.
(c) Seven and a half hours with no break.
(d) Seven hours with two twenty minute breaks.

13. How did Orwell come to understand the discrepancies in pay for miners?
(a) By listening to talk around the lunch table.
(b) By interviewing miners.
(c) By working with the payroll departments.
(d) By studing pay checks and bank accounts.

14. What was the only quality associated with hell that was not in the coal mine?
(a) Fire.
(b) Noise.
(c) Foul air.
(d) Darkness.

15. How did Orwell say he was received by the people he spoke with about their housing?
(a) With curiosity and suspicion.
(b) With kindness and good food.
(c) With courtesy and good nature.
(d) With hostility and suspicion.

Short Answer Questions

1. In one town, what was built instead of public housing the town desperately needed?

2. What did Orwell say about the Corporation housing as a whole?

3. What did Orwell learn had happened to Wigan Pier?

4. What is "traveling?"

5. When a miner comes up from the pit, why does he appear to be pale?

(see the answer keys)

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