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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How did Orwell describe the meals at the Brooker's house?
(a) "Pitifully disgusting."
(b) "Abjectly woeful."
(c) "Uniformly disgusting."
(d) "Uniformly pitiful."

2. What was the average distance between the pit bottom to the coal face?
(a) A mile.
(b) Seven hundred feet.
(c) Sixty yards.
(d) Two miles.

3. What did Orwell find to be the determining factor in the way housekeeping was done?
(a) The number of children.
(b) The lack of a grandmother in the house.
(c) The number of adults in one room.
(d) The proximity of the landlord.

4. What is "buttons down the back?"
(a) A death story told to novices just entering the mines.
(b) Permanent scabs on vertebrae from scraping the spine on beams.
(c) A joke miners play on each other.
(d) The type of shirt worn to keep dust from getting into clothing.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Orwell learn had happened to Wigan Pier?

2. What kind of shop was attached to the Brooker's boarding house?

3. Who did the work in the house of a married unemployed man?

4. How did Orwell describe Mr. Brooker?

5. What author accused miners of gluttony?

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