The Road to Wigan Pier Quiz

George Orwell

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Questions 1-5 of 25:

1.

What was the average size of one of the dwellings? (from Chapter 4)

Five feet wide by six feet high.

Twenty feet wide by five feet high.

Ten feet wide by twelve feet high.

Ten feet wide by ten feet high.

2.

What did Orwell think would remind him that our age was not been a bad one to live in? (from Chapters 6 and 7)

The memory of trees and playgrounds.

The memory of working class heroes and their stories.

The memory of slag heaps and coal mines.

The memory of working class homes and their families.

3.

What did Orwell believe Socialists should be talking about instead of capitalist and proletarian? (from Chapter 13)

The poor and the underfed.

Education and employment.

Robbers and the robbed.

Women and children.

4.

In Orwell's opinion, recoiling from Socialism because you do not like some socialists is like what else? (from Chapter 13)

Refusing to attend the circus because it costs money.

Refusing to travel by train because the ticket taker is ugly.

Refusing to take medicine because it is not free.

Refusing to ride a bus becasue it is not on time.

5.

In a year, how many minors are killed at work? (from Chapter 3)

One in ten thousand.

One in twenty.

One in one hundred.

One in nine hundred.

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