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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 the narrator call Bozo?

2. Where do the group of men in this chapter live?

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

4. Which of the following is an example of the work Bozo and his friends do?

5. Where does the narrator say is the best lodgings?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe the narrator's first night in London?

2. What reason does the carpenter give for throwing away all the food?

3. Describe the Salvation Army shelter.

4. Describe the sleeping conditions of a spike.

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

6. Why do you think the author includes this apparently irrelevant chapter in the book?

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

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

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

10. What shocks the narrator in chapter 35?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss Orwell's life. In what way do you think his life and personality is reflected in the book?

Essay Topic 2

Examine the novel's dialogue. How does Orwell's dialogue contribute to the following areas

1) Character

2) Setting

3) Plot

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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