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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. How did unemployment affect the life of the married man?
(a) Unemployment encouraged men to do housework.
(b) Unemployment did not make much difference in the home.
(c) Unemployment raised the crime rate.
(d) Unemployment drove men to drink.

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

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 2.5.
(b) Divide the figure by more than five.
(c) Multiply the official figure by 4.5.
(d) Multiply the official figures by over three.

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

5. How does a miner bathe after dinner?
(a) With a basin of water and a washcloth.
(b) In an outdoor shower.
(c) In a tub outside in the yard.
(d) In a hot bath tub.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did the Socialists think of the occupational centers?

2. What could happen to cause a miner to lose one or two days pay?

3. Who was Comrade X?

4. What were the occupational centers of the thirties?

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

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