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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did each of the permanent lodgers get for their ten shillings a week rent?
(a) A bedroom, a shared bath, and two meals a day.
(b) A bed in the attic and meals that were mostly bread and butter.
(c) A couch in a living area, a shared bath, and one meal a day.
(d) An attic room, a toilet, and one meal a day.

2. For what did the Brookers purchase insurance policies?
(a) They insured their children.
(b) They insured the lives of both old age pensioners.
(c) They insured their home and shop.
(d) They insured each other.

3. What were newspaper canvassers?
(a) They were door-to-door surveyers for the census.
(b) They were door-to-door advertisement salesmen.
(c) They were door-to-door pollsters for the political candidate.
(d) They were door-to-door salesmen selling newspaper subscriptions.

4. Who wrote "The Coal Scuttle?"
(a) Mr. Paul McCartney, Mayor of Barnsley, Yorkshire.
(b) Mr. Albert Hall, Mayor of Chelsey, Yorkshire.
(c) Mr. Joseph Jones, Mayor of Barnsley, Yorkshire.
(d) Mr. John Abbott, Mayor of Chelsey, Yorkshire.

5. What was offered a very few of the miners in the better built mines?
(a) A quart of water.
(b) A check cashing facility.
(c) A pithead bath.
(d) A hot meal.

Short Answer Questions

1. With what phrase did all of Mrs. Brooker's complaints end?

2. What did Orwell find hopeful about the unemployed men he met?

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

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

5. In one town, what was built instead of public housing the town desperately needed?

(see the answer key)

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