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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was one common characteristic of all of the houses Orwell saw in industrial towns?
(a) None of them were high rent.
(b) None of them were brick.
(c) None of them had running hot water.
(d) None of them were less than two bedrooms.

2. To what did Orwell compare the sound of the conveyor belt in the mine?
(a) A machine gun.
(b) Thunder.
(c) An echo.
(d) A loud hum.

3. Why does every miner have a blue scar on his nose and forehead?
(a) The blue is a bruise.
(b) Coal dust enters the wound and the skin grows over it.
(c) Coal dust reacts with the nasal passages.
(d) Every miner hits his nose and forehead sometimes.

4. Who was Mr. Reilly?
(a) One of Orwell's roommate who was war veteran.
(b) One of Orwell's roommates who was a mechanic at the mine.
(c) One of Orwell's friends in London.
(d) One of Orwell's colleagues from college.

5. What did Orwell find hopeful about the unemployed men he met?
(a) They could talk about their experiences and learn from them.
(b) They had not gone to pieces spiritually.
(c) They relied on each other for food and money.
(d) They continued to exerecise in case work should come available in the mines.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was offered a very few of the miners in the better built mines?

2. What does "back to back" mean?

3. What were "caravan dwellings?"

4. How many people shared the bedroom in which Orwell slept at the Brookers?

5. What was the only quality associated with hell that was not in the coal mine?

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