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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 a tramp tell the narrator about in this chapter?

2. How many times a week do the church serve tea to tramps?

3. What country did the robber run away to avoid a death sentence?

4. What of the following is work Bozo and his friends don't do?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Paddy want to bury his five pence?

2. What is the narrator's theory about British swear words?

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

4. Summarize chapter 37.

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

6. Describe the narrator's experience at the church in chapter 26.

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

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

9. How is Bozo more interesting than other homeless people he has met in the book?

10. What are spikes?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Look at the structure of the novel.

1) How does Orwell use character and dialogue to drive the narrative.

2) Discuss elements of the narrative structure: Exposition, conflict, complication, climax, resolution and conclusion. Do all the elements make for a logical and linear story? How does the story's structure express the novel's themes?

3) Besides from the main character examine the way Orwell uses the other characters in the story. When does he introduce and take them away from the story? What effect does it have on the story?

Essay Topic 2

In what way is the narrator's new job much harder than his work at the hotel? How does the work affect the narrator both mentally and physically?

Essay Topic 3

Orwell was a socialist. Using two examples from the novel discuss the ways the story reflects Orwell's political ideas.

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