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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 8 and 9.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What percentage of a person's income, whether employed or on unemployment, was given over to rent in Wigan?
(a) One fourth.
(b) One fifth.
(c) One third.
(d) One half.

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

3. In order to calculate the actual number of people living on unemployment in England, what would one need to do?
(a) Multiply the official figure by 4.5.
(b) Multiply the official figures by over three.
(c) Divide the figure by more than five.
(d) Multiply the official figure by 2.5.

4. In a year, how many minors are killed at work?
(a) One in ten thousand.
(b) One in nine hundred.
(c) One in one hundred.
(d) One in twenty.

5. What did Orwell find amazing about the unemployed men he met after returning from Burma?
(a) That they were shiftless and uneducated.
(b) That they were angry and bitter people.
(c) That they were ashamed of being unemployed.
(d) That they were well fed and well clothed.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why did Orwell have the opportunity to receive an expensive public school education?

2. What did many of the old timers believe about miners washing their legs?

3. Why did Orwell's parents eventually forbid him to play with certain children in the neighborhood?

4. What other types of expenses were taken from the miner's pay?

5. Why did Orwell reference "Punch" in his discussion of class?

(see the answer key)

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