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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 third.
(b) One fifth.
(c) One fourth.
(d) One half.

2. What did Orwell say was the primary preoccupation of a single unemployed man in winter?
(a) Begging for money.
(b) Keeping warm.
(c) Finding food.
(d) Finding work.

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

4. How did Orwell come to understand the discrepancies in pay for miners?
(a) By interviewing miners.
(b) By working with the payroll departments.
(c) By studing pay checks and bank accounts.
(d) By listening to talk around the lunch table.

5. What did Orwell believe every unemployed man should be given if he wanted it?
(a) A patch of land and a cow.
(b) A patch of land and tools with which to grow his own food.
(c) A patch of land and one hundred pounds.
(d) A patch of land and a horse drawn wagon.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why did Orwell think the upper-middle class were drawn to India, Kenya and Nigeria?

2. How was unemployment viewed by people in the late twenties and early thirties in England?

3. What was one "perk" given to miners that was actually off-set by transportation costs?

4. How was the coal miner getter paid?

5. Who wrote "The Coal Scuttle?"

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