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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 5.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does "back to back" mean?
(a) Two houses separated by a brick wall.
(b) Two houses combined to make one large house.
(c) Two houses built as one, one upstairs, one downstairs.
(d) Two houses built as one, front house faces the street, back house faces the alley.

2. What is the first thing a miner does when he comes up from the mine?
(a) Gargles water to get the coal dust out of his nose and mouth.
(b) Strips off his shirt and wipes his face.
(c) Drinks large quantities of water.
(d) Goes home to bathe.

3. What is "traveling?"
(a) The unpaid time it takes to crawl through the tunnels to the job site.
(b) Going up and down in the elevator.
(c) The unpaid time it takes to get from the job site to the eating area.
(d) Getting to and from the mine from the miner's home.

4. What is a "dataller?"
(a) A miner who digs the coal.
(b) A miner who attends to the roof of the mine.
(c) The superviser in the mine shaft.
(d) A miner who plants explosives.

5. What did Orwell urge the reader to realize about the coal miner?
(a) "Miners have families just like other people."
(b) "Miners are not all stupid people not deserving of an education."
(c) "Because miners sweat their guts out, superior people can remain superior."
(d) "Miners are people too."

Short Answer Questions

1. What percentage of a person's income, whether employed or on unemployment, was given over to rent in Wigan?

2. Who did Orwell go to hear speak while he was in Sheffield?

3. What were some of the most common conditions Orwell notes of housing in the industrial areas?

4. When the Corporation cleaned out the slums and moved its occupants, where did it build housing for them?

5. What did the fillers wear?

(see the answer key)

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